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ter Figures; Parson's Maid; Young Peasant

Woman; The Dancers (1842); Eaves-*dropper (1850); Grape Thieves; The Arrival (1860); Boys' School; Girls' School.—Immerzeel, iii. 174; Kramm, vi. 1712.

VERHEYDEN, JAN HENDRIK, born at Utrecht, Dec. 22, 1778, died there, buried Jan. 16, 1846. Landscape painter, first instructed by Osti, a painter of ornaments at Utrecht; then formed himself chiefly by careful study of nature and copying after Jan van der Heyden and the two Berck-Heyde; painted mostly city views, which are to be found in many private collections. Member of Amsterdam Academy in 1822. Works: Fish Market in Utrecht (1818); Geertekerk in Utrecht, City View, Rotterdam Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 175; Kramm, vi. 1713; Nagler, xx. 106.

VERHOEVEN-BALL, ADRIEN JOSEPH, born in Antwerp, Aug. 7, 1824. Genre painter, pupil of Leys and of Antwerp Academy. Several Medals. For ten years president of section of Fine Arts in Cercle artistique at Antwerp. Works: Foundation of Brotherhood in Antwerp; Letter to Godfather (1856); Card Players (1861); Weenix in his Studio; Return from Mexico; Still-Life (1873).—Müller, 534.

VERHULST. See Hulst.

VERKOLJE, JAN, born in Amsterdam, Feb. 9, 1650, died at Delft, buried May 8, 1693. Dutch school; portrait and genre painter, pupil of Jan Lievens, but nevertheless a painter of high finish. He composed with taste, his drawing is tolerable, his colour warm and clear, and his execution is tender and soft. Works: Mother and Child (1675), Louvre; Sportsman (1672), Rotterdam Museum; Musical Assembly (1673), Amsterdam Museum; Portraits of Willem III. and Consort (attributed), Haarlem Museum; Lady and Trumpeter (1678), Old Fruit Vender and Boy, Dresden Gallery; Musical Assembly, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Lady and Musician at Piano (1674), Schleissheim Gallery; Cupid and Psyche, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Musical Assembly (1673), Vertumnus and Pomona (1678), Wörlitz Gallery.—Immerzeel, iii. 177; Kramm, vi. 1723; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 414; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xiv. 319.

VERKOLJE, NICOLAAS, born at Delft in 1673, died in Amsterdam, Jan. 21, 1746. Dutch school; history, genre, and portrait painter, son and pupil of Jan Verkolje; imitated the style of Van der Werff in his historical pictures. Works: Proserpine culling Flowers, Louvre; Male Portrait, Amsterdam Museum; Declined Booty, Berlin Museum; Toilet of Herse, Copenhagen Gallery; Return from the Chase, Christiania Gallery.—Immerzeel, iii. 178; Kramm, vi. 1724.

VERLAT, CHARLES, born in Antwerp in 1824. History, portrait, and animal painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy and of Nicaise de Keyser; studied in Paris, became director of the Weimar Art School in 1869, afterwards professor at Antwerp Academy, and in 1885 was appointed its director. Visited the East in 1875-77. Ranks high as an animal painter. Medals: 3d class, Paris, 1853; 2d class, 1855, 1861; 1st class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1868. Order of Leopold, 1855; Officer, 1866. Works: Godfrey de Bouillon in Sight of Jerusalem (1855); Madonna; Mater Dolorosa (1866); Marriage at Cana; Vox Populi, Vox Dei; Holy Family (1868); The Jews Crying for Barabbas; Portraits of Himself, of Friedrich Preller (1870), of Franz Liszt (1871), Weimar Museum; of Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar;