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VERELST, SIMON, born at The Hague, died in London (?) about 1721. Dutch school; flower, fruit, and portrait painter; perhaps son of Pieter Verelst; mentioned as master of The Hague guild in 1666. Works: Female Portrait, Louvre; Flower-Piece, Cassel Gallery; do., Brunswick Gallery; Man in Armour (attributed), Dresden Gallery; Still-Life, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Flowers, Schleissheim Gallery; do., New York Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 171; Kramm, vi. 1707; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 441.
VERENDAEL (Veerendael), NICOLAAS
VAN, born in Antwerp, baptized Feb. 19,
1640, died there, buried Aug. 11, 1691.
Flemish school; still-life painter, son and
pupil of Willem van Verendael; approached
Seghers in careful detail and capital drawing,
but is greatly his inferior in power and
clearness of colour. Master of Antwerp
guild in 1656. Works: Eucharist, Antwerp
Museum; Flowers, etc., around Crucifix
(1686), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Dead
Game and Flowers (figures by Teniers), Monkeys
at Table (1686), Bouquet, Dresden Gallery;
Garland around Relief of Madonna
(1670), Berlin Museum; Festoon (1662),
Schwerin Gallery; Garland around Bust of
Pomona, Fruits around Bust of Flora, Still-Life,
Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Four Bouquets
around Madonna (1662), Liechtenstein
Gallery, Vienna; Festoon around do., Naples
Museum; Flower-Pieces in Museums
at Aix-la-Chapelle, Cologne, Innsbruck; Gallery
at Carlsruhe (2); Uffizi, Florence.—Kramm,
vi. 1709; Michiels, ix. 210; Rooses
(Reber), 433; Van den Branden, 1141.
VERESCHAGIN, BASIL, born at Tcherepovets,
government of Novgorod, Russia,
Oct. 14 (26), 1842. Battle and genre painter,
pupil of St. Petersburg Academy, where
he won a medal with his first picture; after
a visit to Paris, the Pyrenees, and Germany,
went to the Caucasus to study Oriental subjects,
and in 1864 to Paris to study under
Gérôme and at the École des Beaux Arts,
spending his vacations
in the Caucasus
and on his
paternal estates,
where he studied
the manners of Russian
peasantry. In
1867-70 he accompanied
General
Kaufmann to Turkestan,
and after a
summer spent at Antwerp and Brussels,
went to the East as far as China; in 1874-76
visited India, and on his return settled
in Paris. Joined the Russian army during
the Russo-Turkish War, was severely
wounded, but after recovery reached
Plevna in time to see the fortress stormed.
After assisting as secretary in the peace negotiations
he returned to Paris, whence he
again visited India in 1882 and 1884. The
realistic painter par excellence of the terrors
of war, he paints his pictures in cycles,
which he will not allow to be broken up.
Divided into two main groups—those treating
of scenery and genre, and those dealing
with war scenes—his principal works are
classified by himself in three sections, dealing
with India, with Turkestan, and with the
Russo-Turkish War. Works: Unexpected
Attack; Opium Eaters; Before Victory;
After Defeat; Defence of the Citadel; Looking
at the Trophies; Assault on Plevna;
After the Assault; Apotheosis of War; Forgotten;
Wounded Returning; Our Prisoners;
Victors; Vanquished; All Quiet at
Shipka; Snow Trenches on the Shipka;
Cycle from Campaign in Turkestan, do. (20)
from Russo-Turkish War, Moscow Museum;
Cycle (20) from History of India. A
series of large paintings is in the Tretjakoff
Collection at Moscow; Frescos in the Church
of the Redeemer, ib. In 1885 he exhibited
in Vienna 83 paintings, among which were:
Suppression of Indian Revolt, Entry of
Prince of Wales into Jeypoor, Pearl Mosque