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- velle biog. gén., xlvi. 9; Pietsch, H. V.
Album (Berlin, 1864); La Presse, Feb. 5, 1863; Rees, H. V. (London, 1880); Revue artistique et littéraire, Feb. 1, 1863, seq.; Rev. des Deux Mondes (1863), xliv. 76; Rev. du Nord de la France, iv. 312; Silvestre, Lettres intimes de H. V. (Paris, 1856); Larousse; Meyer, Gesch., 188; Fine Arts Quarterly, ii. 126; É. de Mirecourt, Horace Vernet (Paris, 1858).
VERNET-LECOMTE, ÉMILE, born in
Paris in 1821. Genre painter, pupil of
Horace Vernet and Léon Cogniet. Medals:
3d class, 1846, 1863; L. of Honour, 1864.
Works: Appeal to Neptune, Lille Museum;
Agamemnon's Body-Guard; Ajax; Job and
his Friends; Enduring and Passing Love;
Fellah Girl; Moorish Girl opening a Pomegranate;
Happy Future, Idyl of Mount Libanus
(1880).—Bellier, i. 958.
VERNIER, ÉMILE LOUIS, born at
Lons-le-Saulnier (Jura). Landscape painter
and lithographer, pupil of Collette. Paints
in the style of Corot. Medals: 1869, 1870.
Works: View near Besançon, River Ain
(1864); Park of Champigny (1865); Street
in Champigny, View of Champigny (1866);
River Doubs, Road in the Woods (1867); Village
of Avane, River Loire (1868); View at
Cléron, River Loué (1869); Farm at Vaucotte,
Beach near Étretat (1870); Boat No. 774 of
Yport, Beach of Yport (1872); Return to
Yport, Low Tide (1873); The Martigues,
Dry Dock in Marseilles, Cancale Boats
(1874); Return of the Bas-de-l'Eau (1875);
Tower of the Weeping Women, Country
People of Wiessant (1876); Boats drying
their Sails (1877); Before the Squall, Farmyard
at Attainville (1878); Women gathering
Sea-Weed at Yport, The Seine at Bercy
in Winter (1879); Selling Shells (1880);
Gathering Sea-Weed at Concarneau, The
Downs of Roscoff (1881); Shrimp Fishers
of Grand Champ, Launch of a Sloop (1882);
Breton Team, The Thames at London (1883);
Low Tide at Concarneau, The Thames at
London (1884); Spring-Tide in Cornwall,
Morning, ib. (1885); Embarking of Fishermen,
Return of Vessels in Stormy Weather
(1886).—Larousse; L'Art (1879), xvi. 310;
Bellier, ii. 661.
VERONESE, ALESSANDRO. See Turchi,
Alessandro.
VERONESE, BONIFAZIO. See Bonifazio,
Veronese.
VERONESE, PAOLO, born in Verona in
1528, died in
Venice, April
19, 1588. Venetian
school;
real name Paolo
Caliari or Cagliari,
son of
Gabriele Caliari,
a sculptor;
pupil of his uncle
Antonio
Badile, according to Ridolfi, and of Giovanni
Caroto, according to Vasari. After painting
in Verona and in Mantua he established
himself in Venice, where he executed most
of his works. In 1563 he visited Rome in
the suite of the Venetian ambassador, but
the study of the pictures of the great masters
there did not affect his style. On his return
to Venice he gained great reputation by
many pictures and frescos painted in the
Palazzo Ducale and in churches, especially
in S. Sebastiano. As Titian was then very
old, Veronese shared with Tintoretto the
most important commissions. He received
orders from the Emperor Rudolph II., the
Duke of Savoy, and the Duke of Modena,
and was invited by Philip II. to decorate
the Escorial; but preferring to remain in
Venice, he sent Federico Zuccaro to Spain
in his stead. With all his skill, splendid
use of colour, and facile command of the
resources of painting for decorative purposes,
Veronese seems superficial when
compared with Titian. He gives us the
glitter, the pomp, the outward aspect of
Venetian life, making it the medium for the
representation of sacred as well as profane
subjects; but while he thus fascinates the
eye he does not, like Titian, move the feel-