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VANNUTELLI, SCIPIONE, Cavaliere, born in Rome; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil in Vienna of Wurzinger, afterwards in Paris of Heilbuth. Medal: Paris, 1864. Works: Carnival in Venice; Gabrielle d'Estrées; Italian Danaë; The Night; Agreeable Reading; Procession in Venice; Novices in a Roman Church, Trio in the Garden (1883).
VARCHI, BENEDETTO, portrait, Titian,
Vienna Museum; canvas, H. 3 ft. 8 in. × 3
ft. Painted about 1550. Repainted about
the face.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 426.
VARGAS, LUIS DE, born in Seville in
1502, died there
in 1568. Spanish
school; pupil of
Diego de la Barrera;
went to Italy
about 1527,
according to Cean
Bermudez, and
studied with
Perino del Vaga
(?); returned to
Seville after an absence of twenty-eight
years. He is remarkable for grandeur and
simplicity of design, and for the purity and
grace of his female heads; his drawing too
is correct, and his colouring good. Works:
Nativity (1555), and La Gamba (1561), Cathedral
of Seville.—Stirling, i. 307; Ch.
Blanc, École espagnole.
VARIN, QUENTIN, born at Amiens in
1580, died about 1645. French school;
history painter, pupil of Gagex and Bonaventura
in Amiens and Beauvais, and then
went to Paris, where he became an able
painter, and the master of Nicolas Poussin.
Works: Christ in the Temple, St. Germain
des Prés, Paris; St. Charles Borromeo, St.
Jacques de la Boucherie, ib.—Ch. Blanc,
École française.
VARLEY, CORNELIUS, born at Hackney,
near London, Nov. 21, 1781, died at
Highbury, Oct. 2, 1873. Landscape painter
in water-colours, brother and pupil of
John Varley; exhibited first at the Royal
Academy in 1803, and in the following year
was one of the foundation members of the
Water Colour Society. He painted chiefly
views in Ireland and Wales and classical
scenery. A younger brother, William Fleetwood
Varley (1785-1856), was a water-colour
painter and teacher of drawing at Oxford.
VARLEY, JOHN, born at Hackney, near
London, Aug. 17, 1778, died Nov. 17, 1842.
Landscape painter in water-colours; studied
first under a portrait painter and then
with an architectural draughtsman; exhibited
first, in 1798, View of Peterborough
Cathedral. He exhibited at the Royal Academy
until 1804, when he became one of the
foundation members of the Water Colour
Society. He painted many views in Wales
and on the Thames, was a successful teacher,
and the author of several drawing-books
and other works. His son, Albert Fleetwood
Varley (1804-76), was also a water-colour
painter and teacher.
VARONI (Varonne, Varrone), JOHANN,
born at Bellinzona, Canton Tessino, Switzerland,
in 1832. Landscape painter, pupil of
Vienna Academy and of Josef Höger; settled
in Vienna, whence he made frequent
study trips into the Austrian Alps, to Italy,
and Switzerland. Works: View of Ariccia,
do. in Roman Campagna, do. near Olevano,
Ruins of Pæstum (1855); Pine Woods near
Frascati (1856); Well in the Campagna, St.
Gotthard (1858); Well near Grotta Ferrata,
View of Vienna (1860); Nassfeld near Gastein,
Temple of Concordia near Girgente
(1861); St. Bernardino, Switzerland (1862);
Views in Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, and Switzerland
(1863-73); Költschach Valley near
Gastein (1877).—Wurzbach, xlix. 287.
VAROTARI, ALESSANDRO. See Padovanino.
VASARI, GIORGIO, born at Arezzo,
July 30, 1511, died in Florence, June 27,
1574. Florentine school; pupil of his father,
Antonio Vasari, and afterwards of Andrea
del Sarto and of Michelangelo. Went
to Rome with Cardinal Ippolito de' Medi-