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Works: Fish Market in Ghent (1826); Dominican Church and Monastery, ib. (1829); Ruins of St Macarius', ib.; do. of St. Bavon's Abbey, ib. (1830); Market Square at Brunswick; Views in Bruges, Mentz, Limburg, etc.; View in Venice, Carlsruhe Gallery; Harbour View (1842), Canal Grande in Venice (1851), City Gate of Perugia (1850), Street in Italian Town (1845), Tower and Bridge at Andernach (1846), New Pinakothek, Munich; City Gate and Bridge at Coblentz, Stuttgart Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 180; Kramm, vi. 1728; N. Necrol. d. D. (1852).
VERMEHREN, JOHAN FREDRIK, born
at Ringsted, Zealand,
May 12, 1823.
Genre, landscape,
and portrait painter,
pupil of Copenhagen
Academy; took part
in the campaign of
1848; visited Italy
in 1855, 1857, and
1862, Holland and
France in 1862, and
became member of Copenhagen Academy in
1864 and professor in 1873. Danebrog
Order, 1869. Works: Cobbler in his
Kitchen; Woman Spinning; Peasant Woman
bringing Coffee to her Mother (1851);
Bread Seller (1851, 1852); Jutland Shepherd
(1853); Farewell of Reserve Soldier
(1849), Street in Italian Town (1857), Sowers
(1859), Domestic Occupation (1860),
Beggar Children in Farm Kitchen (1861),
Farmyard (1865), Copenhagen Gallery;
Portrait of the Painter Sonne (1870); Man
filling his Pipe (1882); Young Man of
Eighteenth Century (1883); Portrait of
General Jonquières (1883), Frederiksborg
Gallery.—Sigurd Müller, 365; Weilbach,
734.
VERMEULEN, ANDRIES, born at Dordrecht
in 1763, died at Amsterdam in 1814.
Landscape and marine painter, son and
pupil of Cornelis Vermeulen (1732-1813);
painted especially winter scenes enlivened
by many figures, and of pleasing colouring.
Works: Winter Day on Dutch River with
Skaters, Copenhagen Gallery; do. (1800),
Winter Sunday in a Village (1800), Städel
Gallery, Frankfort; Boat with Load of Pigs
crossing Frozen River, Gotha Museum,
where is also a Landscape with Cows and
Sheep by his father.—Immerzeel, iii. 130;
Kramm, vi. 1728.
VERMEYEN (Vermay, Vermayen), JAN
CORNELISZ, called El Mayo, and Juan de
Barbalonga, born at Beverwyck, near Haarlem,
in 1500, died in Brussels in 1559.
Flemish school; history, portrait, and landscape
painter; in the service of Margaret of
Austria in 1529; summoned to Spain in
1534 by Charles V., whom he accompanied
to Tunis, where he drew the Siege of Tunis
and other events of the campaign. From
these drawings he executed several pictures,
now in the Castle of Coburg, and ten large
coloured cartoons (for tapestries), now in
the Vienna Museum. Afterwards he visited,
with Charles V., Naples, Germany, and
Flanders. His pictures in the Brussels Cathedral
were ruined by the Iconoclasts,
and various highly esteemed landscapes, in
the Palace of the Prado, Madrid, were
burned in 1608. In the gallery of Marchese
Mansi at Lucca are: Battle of Pavia (1525),
Taking of Rome (1527), and Siege of Tunis
(1535).—Engerth, Gem. der Belvedere Gal.,
ii. 522; Immerzeel, iii. 181; Jahrb. der
Kunsthist. Sammlg. des Allerhöchsten Kaiserh.,
ii. 145; Kramm, vi. 1729; Kugler
(Crowe), i. 236; Siret (1883), ii. 368; Wauters,
Peinture flam., 138.
VERNANSAL, GUY LOUIS, born at
Fontainebleau, July 12, 1648, died in Paris,
April 9, 1729. French school; history
painter, pupil of Le Brun; received into the
Academy in 1687, adjunct professor in 1695,
professor in 1704; travelled for several
years, painted in 1716 at Bonn for the
Elector of Cologne, then in Italy, chiefly
at Padua, where several of his works may
still be seen. Works: Renovation of the
Edict of Nantes (1687), Versailles Museum;