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- burgh. Elected an A.R.S.A. in 1875, and
R.S.A. in 1881. Works: Sunday Morning; Leisure Hours; Loch Fine; Largo Bay; Fresh Breeze; Reading the War News, National Gallery, Edinburgh.
VALLEY FARM, John Constable, National
Gallery, London; canvas, 4 ft. 9 in. × 4
ft. 1 in. A farm house on the bank of the
Stour, near East Bergholt, Suffolk, property
of the painter's father. Called Willy Lott's
house from its former possessor. Painted
in 1835. Vernon bequest, 1847. Engraved
by J. C. Bentley.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Brock-Arnold,
Biog. Great Artists, 107.
VANAISE, GUSTAVE, born in Ghent;
contemporary. History and genre painter,
pupil of Ghent Academy and of Canneel.
Mention honorable, Paris, 1883. Works:
Louis XI. and Olivier le Daim (1879); A
Mother, The Painter Willem Key overhearing
Alva's Order for Execution of Egmont
(1880); Magdalen at Christ's Tomb
(1881); Young Girl at the Mirror (1882);
St. Lievin (1883); Sunday Evening, Gamin
with Pigeon (1884); Good Samaritan, Portrait
of César de Cock (1885).
VAN BOSKERCK, ROBERT W., born in
New Jersey in 1855. Landscape painter,
pupil of A. H. Wyant. Studio in New
York. Works: Landscape (T. B. Clarke,
New York), Cedars at Saddle River (1880);
October Landscape (1881); Jersey Roadway
(1882), Midland Meadow (1883); Midsummer
(1884).
VANDERLYN, JOHN, born at Kingston,
N. Y., October, 1776, died there, Sept. 23,
1852. Portrait and history painter, pupil
of Gilbert Stuart in New York. Studied in
1796-1801 in Paris, where he painted from
1803 to 1815. Medal at Paris (1808) for his
Marius among the Ruins of Carthage.
Other works: Murder of Jane McCrea by
the Indians; Ariadne in Naxos, estate of
Asher B. Durand, Orange, N. J.; Landing
of Columbus, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington;
Portraits of Washington, Monroe,
Madison, Calhoun, and Clinton; Zachary
Taylor, City Hall, New York; Study of
Head, Corcoran Gallery, Washington. He
became involved in pecuniary difficulties by
the exhibition of panoramas in a building
erected by himself in City Hall Park, New
York, and died in poverty.
VAN DYCK, Sir Antony. See Dyck.
VAN DYCK, LITTLE. See Coques.
VAN ELTEN. See Kruseman van Elten.
VAN MARCKE. See Marcke.
VANLOO. See Loo.
VANNI, ANDREA. See Andrea di
Vanni.
VANNI, FRANCESCO, Cavaliere, born
in Siena in 1563, died there, Oct. 25, 1609.
Sienese school. Probably a pupil of his
half-brother, Ventura Salimbeni; went when
sixteen years old to Rome, where he studied
with Giovanni de' Vecchi. Afterwards
worked at Parma, where he studied the
works of Correggio and adopted the manner
of Barocci. On his return to Rome he enjoyed
the favour of Clement VIII., who
made him a knight. His pictures are in
several of the churches of Siena, especially
in S. Quirico, S. Spirito, SS. Concezzione,
and S. Agostino. Other examples: Repose
of the Holy Family, Martyrdom of St. Irene,
Louvre, Paris; Holy Family, Dresden Gallery;
St. Francis in Ecstasy, Pitti, Florence;
Sons of Jacob buying Wheat of Joseph,
Uffizi, ib.; Holy Women at Tomb of Christ,
Madrid Museum; Innocence, Hermitage;
Fall of Simon Magus, St. Peter's, Rome (one
of the few oil paintings in that basilica).—Lanzi,
i. 314; Ch. Blanc, École florentine.
VANNI, TURINO DI, born in Pisa;
flourished close of 14th century. Florentine
school. A Madonna and Angels, signed
by him, is in the Louvre; an altarpiece,
signed and dated 1397, in S. Paolo à Ripa,
Arno; and a Virgin with Angels and Saints,
in the Convent of S. Martino, near Palermo.
Had a brother, Nello di Vanni, who finished
the history of Job, begun by Giotto in the
Campo Santo.—Villot, Cat. Louvre.
VANNUCCHI, ANDREA. See Andrea
del Sarto.
VANNUCCI. See Perugino.