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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.