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E. Maynard, Boston.—Chronique des Arts (1881), 52; Illustr. Zeitg. (1881), i. 143; Immerzeel, iii. 168; Kramm, vi. 1702; Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 341; Michiels, x. 579.

VERBOECKHOVEN, LOUIS, born at Warneton, West Flanders, Feb. 5, 1802. Marine painter, brother of preceding, first instructed by his father, then studied while travelling on coast of North Sea. Member of Amsterdam Academy. Medals at Brussels, Cambray, Arras, and Lille. Works: Marines in Museums of Courtray, Antwerp (1839), and Leipsic (2).—Immerzeel, iii. 169.

VERBOOM (van Boom), ABRAHAM, born at Haarlem, died after 1657. Dutch school; landscape painter, imitated J. Ruisdael, and influenced by Waterloo. He excelled in painting trees, and his richly wooded landscapes are good in aerial perspective, though somewhat heavy in colouring. Lingelbach, Adriaan van de Velde, and Philips Wouwerman painted the figures in his landscapes. Works: Wooded Hill, Mr. Baring, London; Departure for the Chase, Brussels Museum; Wood Landscape with Huntsmen Resting (1657), Rotterdam Museum; do. with Travellers (figures by Lingelbach), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Village, Oak Wood, Dresden Gallery; Village View (1656), Schwerin Gallery; Landscapes (2), Copenhagen Gallery; do., Schleissheim Gallery; do., Historical Society, New York.—Immerzeel, iii. 169; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 480; Kramm, i. 121; vi. 1702.

VERBRUGGE, JEAN CHARLES, born at Bruges, Aug. 25, 1756, died there, June 4, 1831. Genre painter, pupil of Hubert de Cockq, then at the Bruges Academy of Jean Gaeremyn, and finally of Legillon. Works: Farm Interior (1790), do., and Stable Interior, Bruges Academy.—Weale, Cat. Bruges Acad. (1861), 107.

VERBRUGGHEN, KASPER PEETER, the elder, born at Antwerp, baptized Sept. 8, 1635, died there, April 16, 1681. Flemish school; flower painter, pupil of Cornelis Mahu in 1645; master of the guild in 1650. Works: Garland (1670), Lyons Museum; Flowers around Picture, Dunkirk Museum; Flower-Pieces (2, 1651, 1679), Schleissheim Gallery.—Van den Branden, 1137.

VERBRUGGHEN, KASPER PEETER, the younger, born at Antwerp, April 11, 1664, died there, buried March 14, 1730. Flemish school; flower painter, son and pupil of preceding; master of the guild in 1677; its dean in 1691; worked also at The Hague, where he seems to have been settled in 1706-23. Works: Flower-Pieces in the Louvre, Galleries of Aschaffenburg and Schwerin (2), Museums of Antwerp, Cologne (2), Hermannstadt, Lille, Stockholm, and Wiesbaden.—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers, 529; Immerzeel, iii. 170; Kramm, vi. 1703; Van den Branden, 1139.

VERDÉ-DELISLE, Mme. MARIE ÈVE ALEXANDRINE (née Perignon), born in Paris, April 29, 1805, died there in 1866. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Gros. Works: Reading the Bible (1830); Charles VII. and Agnes Sorel (1831); Rubens as a Child (1844); Meet (1846); A Thought, A Souvenir (1848).—Bellier, ii. 647; Larousse.

VERDIER, FRANÇOIS, born in Paris in 1651, died there, June 20, 1730. French school; history painter, pupil of Le Brun, whose niece he married, and with whom he worked upon the decorations of the Versailles and Trianon Palaces and the Gallery of Apollo in the Louvre. Won the grand prix de Rome in 1668. Member of Academy, 1678; assistant professor, 1681; professor, 1684. Works: Assumption, Lou-