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Lamp Light, Museum, Amsterdam; Kitchen Interior, Teyler's Museum, ib.; Old Woman Spinning, Rotterdam Museum; others in Lille Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 186; Kramm, vi. 1737.
VERTANGHEN, DANIEL, born at The
Hague in 1598, died there in 1657. Dutch
school; history and landscape painter; one
of the best pupils of Poelenburg, whom he
imitated most successfully in composition,
colouring, and execution. Painted falcon
hunts, bathing women, and dancing maidens
in attractive landscapes. Works: Narcissus,
Cassel Gallery; Diana and Nymphs,
Copenhagen Gallery; do. (2), Bathing Girls
surprised by Shepherds, Southern Landscape,
Schwerin Gallery; Landscape with
Bathing Nymphs, Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Landscape with Diana and Dancing Satyr,
Brunswick Gallery; Adam and Eve driven
from Paradise, Dresden Gallery.—Immerzeel,
iii. 187; Siret (1883), ii. 372.
VERTUMNUS AND POMONA, Paris Bordone, Louvre; canvas, round, 4 ft. 3 in. diameter. Life-size figures, half-length, standing side by side, embracing.—Landon, Musée, 2d Col., iv. Pl. 24.
By Francesco Melzi, Berlin Museum; wood, H. 6 ft. × 4 ft. 5 in. Pomona, sitting under an elm, in a rocky landscape, turns towards Vertumnus, who is disguised as an old woman (Ovid., Met., xiv. 623). Formerly attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Original sketch at Windsor Castle.—Meyer, Museen, 280.
VERTUNNI, ACHILLE, Cavaliere, born
at Naples; contemporary. Landscape painter,
pupil of Fergola; visited Egypt and the
East, and paints scenes in those countries,
as well as in Italy, with remarkable power
and brilliancy of colour. Medals: Vienna,
1873; Philadelphia, 1876; L. of Honour,
1878. Works: Daybreak near Cape Miseno;
Torrent near Terni; Ruins of Roman
Villa; Pine Forest near Ostia; View in
Austria; Pontine Marshes; Pool in Roman
Campagna; Ruins of Pæstum, Fürstenberg
Gallery, Donaueschingen; Seashore of Porto
d' Anzio; Castello della Pietra; Pyramids
of Egypt; The Sphinx; Sunset at
Cape Fusano; On the Nile after Sunset
(1879); Lake Avernus, Pæstum (1868), H.
P. Kidder, Boston, Mass.; Bay of Naples,
William H. Metcalf, Milwaukee, Wis.—Art
Journal (1870), 237; D. Rundschau, xx.
469.
VERVEER, SALOMON LEONARDUS,
born at The Hague, Nov. 30, 1813, died
there, Jan. 5, 1876. Genre and marine
painter, pupil of Bartholomeus Johannes
van Hove; visited the Rhine countries and
France, especially Normandy, and lived for
some time in Paris. Medals: Brussels, 1842,
1851; Philadelphia, 1876; Order of Leopold,
1851; Officer Order of Oaken Crown,
1863; Order of Lion, 1874. Works: City
View with Mail Steamship Starting (1836);
Jewish Quarter at Amsterdam (1851); View
of Katwijk-aan-Zee, Ghent Museum; View
of Noordwijk-aan-Zee (1865), View of Scheveningen
in Rainy Weather (1873), City
View, Museum, Amsterdam; Kirmess at
Scheveningen, Museum Fodor, ib.; Afternoon
at Katwijk-aan-Zee, Rotterdam Museum;
Winter Scene (1846), Landscape (with
animals by Verboeckhoven), Kunsthalle,
Hamburg. His brother and pupil Elchanon
(born at The Hague, April 19, 1826), paints
similar subjects; studied also under Herman
Ten Kate. Works: Little Smoker, Children
with Sleigh, Rotterdam Museum; Return
from the Walk (1883).—Immerzeel, iii.
188; Kramm, vi. 1742; Meyer, Conv. Lex.,
xvii. 944.
VERWÉE, ALFRED JACQUES, born at
Brussels; contemporary. Landscape and
animal painter, son of Louis Pierre Verwée
(born in Brussels, 1812), pupil of Eugène
Verboeckhoven; paints in Brussels with
great success, and his pictures are to be
found in most collections in Belgium.