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the Shepherds, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Three Apostles in Conversation, Oldenburg Gallery; A Repast, National Museum, Pesth; Christ driving the Money Changers from the Temple, Peter's Denial, Soldiers at Dice, A Concert, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; St. John the Baptist in Meditation, Stockholm Museum; Moses with the Law Tables, Museum, Vienna; Musical Trio, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; St. Cecilia with two Holy Women and an Angel, Czernin Gallery, ib.; "You see the Beam in your Neighbour's Eye," etc., Guitar Player, Mountainous Landscape with Figures and Animals, Uffizi, Florence; Christ and the Doctors, Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome; Martyrdom of S. Processa and Martinian, Vatican, ib. (copy in mosaic, by Cristofori, St. Peter's, ib.); Joseph interpreting the Dreams, Palazzo Borghese, ib.; Peter's Denial, Palazzo Corsini, ib.; Roman Charity, St. John, Palazzo Doria, ib.; Beheading of St. John, Rome Triumphant, Palazzo Sciarra, ib.; Holy Family, Palazzo Spada, ib.; Christ at the Column, Turin Gallery; Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, Madrid Museum.—Bellier, i. 141; Ch. Blanc, École française, i.; Dauvergne, Le Valentin (Almanach du départm. de Seine-et-Marne, 1862), 116; Emeric-David, Nat. hist. sur les chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture, etc. (Paris, 1854), 278; Mariette, Abecedario, v. 357.
VALENTINIAN I., Roman Emperor (A.D. 364-375), was an amateur painter and modeller.—Aurel. Vict., Epit. de Cæs., 45, 7; Ammianus Marcellinus, xxx. 9, 4; Overbeck, Schriftquellen, 2135.
VALE OF REST, Sir John E. Millais,
Bart., H. Tait, Streatham, England; canvas.
Illustrating an ancient Scottish superstition,
that when a coffin-shaped cloud is seen in
the sky it is a symbol of approaching death.
Scene in a convent garden, at sunset;
amongst the hillocks of graves, with gray
headstones looking sad in the waning light,
are two women, one, a novice, up to her
knees in a grave from which she is vigorously
throwing out the earth with a spade;
the other, an older nun, sitting on a prostrate
headstone holding a rosary, her face
showing that she has seen the coffin-shaped
cloud which hangs over the setting sun.
Royal Academy, 1859. Graham sale (1886),
£3,000. Indian ink sketch (1858), H. V.
Tebbs.
VALERO, CRISTÓBAL, born at Alboraya,
Valencia, died at Valencia, Dec. 18, 1789.
Spanish school; history and portrait painter,
pupil of Evaristo Muñoz (1671-1737),
then in Rome of Sebastiano Conca; after his
return he became a priest, and soon after
director of the newly erected Academy of
S. Barbara (1754), which was afterwards
made a royal institution under the name of
S. Carlos (1768), with Valero as its president.
Honorary member of San Fernando
Academy, 1762. Works: Two Scenes from
Don Quixote, Madrid Museum; pictures in
S. Francisco, S. Julian, S. Andrea, the Capuchins,
the Trinitarians and the Mínimos,
Valencia; Portraits of Prelates, Archbishop's
Palace, ib.
VALKENBURG, DIRK, born in Amsterdam
in 1675, died there in 1721. Dutch
school; still-life and animal painter, pupil of
Jan Weenix, whose style he acquired so successfully
that his pictures are frequently
mistaken for his master's; was also a good
portrait painter, and in 1695 went to Germany,
where he was employed by different
princes, and long resided. Works: Dead
Hare and Poultry (1704), Städel Gallery,
Frankfort; Bear attacked by Dogs (1703),
Gallery, Copenhagen; Dead Game and Implements
of the Chase, Moltke Collection,
ib.; Hunting Booty (4), Liechtenstein Gallery,
Vienna; do. (5), Harrach Gallery, ib.;
Immerzeel, iii. 154.
VALLANCE, WILLIAM F., born at Paisley,
Scotland; contemporary. Marine painter,
pupil of Robert Scott Lauder and of the
Royal Scottish Academy. Studio in Edin-