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Museum of Fine Arts; Young Medusa, Death of Abel (1869); Ideal Head (1871); Scene on the Mediterranean, Fete Champêtre (1874); Greek Actor's Daughter (1876); Young Marsyas, Cumæan Sibyl, A Pastoral (1878); Sleeping Girl; Venetian Model; Golden Net, Waves off Pier Head (1882); Le Mistral—The Strong North-West Wind (1884); Nausicaä and her Companions, J. P. Morgan, New-York; Maiden, E. D. Morgan Collection, ib.; Genius and Fisherman, Martin Brimmer, Boston.—Am. Art Rev. (1880), 325, 369; Mag. of Art (1885), viii. 120.
VEEN, MARTIN VAN. See Heemskerk.
VEEN, OCTAVIO VAN. See Vaenius.
VEILLON, (LOUIS) AUGUSTE, born at
Bex, Canton Wallis, Dec. 29, 1834. Landscape
painter, pupil in Geneva of Diday,
studied in Paris and Rome and travelled in
Switzerland, Holland, and Egypt; lived two
years in Venice. Works: Lake of Brienz
(1866), Berne Museum; Evening in Venice,
Basle Museum; View at Brunnen, Zürich
Museum; Two Views on Lake Geneva;
Evening on Banks of the Nile; Arabian
Camp; Lake Geneva, Evening near Cairo
(1882).—Müller, 532; Kunst-Chronik, xvii.
703, 741.
VEIT, PHILIPP, born in Berlin, Feb. 13,
1793, died in Mentz,
Dec. 18, 1877. History
painter, pupil of
Dresden Academy under
Matthäi, then went
to Vienna to his stepfather,
Friedrich von
Schlegel; in 1813
he entered the German
army as a volunteer,
fought in the battles
of Dresden, Culm, and Leipsic, and was
decorated with the Iron Cross. In 1815
he joined in Rome the circle of Cornelius,
Overbeck, and Schadow, with whom he
painted the frescos in the Casa Bartholdi
and Villa Massimi; in 1830 made director
of the Städel Institute at Frankfort; resigned
in 1843 and settled at Sachsenhausen,
whence, in 1853, he moved to Mentz
as director of the Gallery. One of the chief
representatives of the religious-romantic
school. Works: Triumph of Religion, Vatican
Gallery, Rome; Madonna in Glory,
S. Trinità de' Monti, ib. (cartoon in Darmstadt
Museum); Judith; Christ on Mount
of Olives, Naumburg Cathedral; Christ
knocking at the Door; Presentation in the
Temple (1829); Simeon in the Temple; Germania;
Magnificat; Repose in Egypt, Mary
and Elizabeth, Portrait of Abbé Noirlieu,
Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Assumption
(1846), Cathedral, ib.; Charlemagne, Otto
the Great, Frederic II., Henry VII., Römer,
ib.; The Two Marys at Christ's Tomb, National
Gallery, Berlin; St. George; Good
Samaritan; Egyptian Darkness. In fresco:
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, Allegory on the
Seven Fruitful Years, Casa Bartholdi, Rome
(cartoon in Städel Gallery); Pictures to
Dante's "Paradise," Villa Massimi, ib.; Allegory
on Restoration of Coliseum, Museo
Chiaramonti, Vatican, ib.; Triumph of
Christianity, Italia, Germania (1838), Städel
Institute, Frankfort (cartoons in Carlsruhe
Gallery); Cartoons of Cycle (executed, 1868,
by Settegast, Lasinsky, and Hermann),
Mentz Cathedral. His elder brother Johannes
(died in Rome in 1852), studied in
Vienna and from 1811 in Rome, where he
was allied with Cornelius, Schadow, and
Overbeck, and took especially Perugino for
his model. In the Catholic Church in Berlin
is an Adoration of the Shepherds by
him. He painted also excellent portraits.
—Art Journal (1865), 70; Dohme, K. u. K.
des xix. Jahrh., i. and ii.; Förster, iv. 221; v.
351; Jordan (1885), ii. 229; Kaulen, 31;
Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 19; Nagler, xx. 1;
Reber, ii. 223; Riegel, Gesch. des Wiederauflebens.
der d. K, 322, 345; Zeitschr. f.
b. K, iv., 62; xv. 29, 73.
VELASCO, LUIS DE, died in Toledo,
March 11, 1606. Spanish school. Was
living in Toledo in 1564; became painter to
the Chapter there in 1581. Best works: