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fruit and flowers, as she glances back at the spectator. Painted about 1555 for Niccolò Crasso; bought in Florence, in 1832, for 5,000 thalers, from Abbate Celotti, for Berlin Museum. Replica in Lord Cowper's Collection, London, with a casket, instead of fruit and flowers, on the silver dish; from the Orléans Gallery.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 136; Waagen, Treasures, ii. 497; Ridolfi, Maraviglie, i. 253, 259.
By Titian, Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 3 ft. 8 in. × 3 ft. 1 in. A young girl, dressed in white damask silk, her yellow hair strewed with pearls, and with ear-rings and necklace of pearls, tucks up the train of her gown with one hand and waves a palmetto fan with the other. Painted about 1555; came to Dresden from Modena; transferred in 1827 to a new canvas; fairly preserved. Copy in the Cassel Museum; another by Rubens in Vienna Museum; study in Albertina Collection, Vienna.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 135.
By Titian, Dresden Gallery; canvas, life-*size; signed. A lady of mature years, in dress of green velvet, standing in a room, waving a fan of plumes. The features are different from those traditionally known as Lavinia's, and resemble those of Venus with the Whispering Cupid, in the Uffizi. Painted in 1558; sold with the Modena Collection to the King of Saxony. A masterpiece of portraiture (C. & C.). Engraved by Basan. Transferred to a new canvas in 1826.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 267.
VECELLI (Vecellio), MARCO, called
Marco di Tiziano, born at Venice in 1545,
died there in 1611. Venetian school; history
painter, grand-nephew and favourite
pupil of Titian, whom he accompanied in his
journeys to Germany and Rome, and whose
style, both in composition and colouring, he
imitated most successfully, whence his surname.
Works: Allegory on Peace of Bologna
in 1529, Doge Leonardo Donato
kneeling before Madonna, Victory of the
Venetians in the Morea in 1148, several
others, Palazzo ducale, Venice; Christ illuminating
the World, SS. Giovanni e Paolo,
ib.; Altarpieces in several other churches,
ib.; Crucifixion and two Episodes in Life of
St. Catherine, Parish church at Cadore. His
son Tiziano Vecellio, the younger, called
Tizianello (born in 1570), degenerated under
the influence of the mannerism prevailing
at the beginning of the 17th century, but
was much esteemed as a portrait painter.—Lanzi
(Roscoe), ii. 168; Nagler, xix. 494.
VECELLI (Vecellio), ORAZIO, born in
Venice, 1515, died there in 1576. Venetian
school; second son and pupil of Titian,
whom he served constantly as an assistant.
He accompanied his father to Rome, where
he painted Battista Siciliano, a celebrated
violin player, and other persons. His portraits
are praised by Vasari, but he no
doubt had aid and advice from his father.
Being rich, dissipated, and indolent, he
painted but little, and gained little distinction.
His Battle of Castle Sant' Angelo,
painted in competition with Tintoretto and
Paolo Veronese for the Great Council Hall
in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice, was burned
in 1574. His only known pictures are the
shutters of the altar in S. Biagio of Calalzo,
near Cadore.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 484; Ch.
Blanc, École vénitienne; Vasari, ed. Le
Mon., xi. 322; xiii. 36; Burckhardt, 739.
VECELLI, TIZIANO. See Titian.
VEDDER, ELIHU, born in New York,
Feb. 26, 1836. Genre
painter, pupil of T.
H. Matteson, Sherbourne,
N. Y., and
of Picot in Paris.
In 1856 he went to
Italy, where he has
worked many years.
Occasionally exhibits
at the National Academy;
elected N. A. in 1865. Studio in Rome.
In 1883-84 Vedder made a series of 56
illustrations for the Rubáiyát of Omar
Kháyyám (Boston, 1884). Works: Questioner
of the Sphinx; The Lost Mind;
Identity; Lair of the Sea Serpent, Boston