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Medals: Brussels, Paris (1864, 1878), Vienna; Order of Leopold, 1871; L. of Honour, 1881. Works: Banks of the Scheldt; Horses at Pasture; View in the Ardennes; Zealand Team, Brussels Museum; St. Sebastian's Guild (1881); Ox and Bull Fighting (1884).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 998.
VERWILT, FRANÇOIS, born at Rotterdam
in 1598, died there in 1690 or 1691.
Dutch school; landscape, figure, and portrait
painter, pupil of Cornelis Dubois, then
of Poelenburg, whose style he imitated. His
works are extremely rare. Works: Son of
Admiral van Nes (1669), Amsterdam Museum;
Magdalen Penitent, Cassel Gallery;
Repose in Egypt, Czernin Gallery, Vienna.—Immerzeel,
iii. 190; Kunst-Chronik, xx.
508.
VESALIUS, ANDREA, portrait, Titian,
Palazzo Pitti, Florence; canvas, H. 4 ft. 3
in. × 3 ft. 11 in. The eminent anatomist,
author of "De Humani Corporis Fabrica"
(Basle, 1543), when an old man. Other portraits
of him differ from this in features.
Engraved by T. Ver Cruys; Paradisi.—C.
& C., Titian, ii. 418; Gal. du Pal. Pitti, iii.
Pl. 122.
VESTAL TUCCIA, Hector Leroux, Corcoran
Gallery, Washington; canvas, H. 4 ft.
6 in. × 8 ft. 2 in. Tuccia, a vestal charged
with want of chastity, stands on the banks
of the Tiber, raising above her head with
both hands a sieve, praying to Vesta to allow
her to bear it filled with water to her
temple in proof of her innocence. Salon,
1874; Paris Exhibition, 1878.—Art Treasures
of America, i. 6; Corcoran Gal. Cat.
VESTALS, SCHOOL OF, Hector Leroux,
J. J. Astor, New York; canvas, H. 5 ft. × 10 ft.
Scene: Interior of Temple of Vesta,
Rome; in foreground, a bronze tripod with
the never-dying fire, upon which the chief
priestess pours a libation while a vestal, at
her left, reads from a scroll; in front, two
priestesses of superior dignity sit upon rich
chairs with footstools, and the novices stand
around in a semicircle. Salon, 1880. Photogravure
in Art Treasures of America, ii. 5.
VESTIER, ANTOINE, born at Avallon
(Yonne), April 28, 1740, died in Paris, Dec.
24, 1824. Portrait painter, pupil of Pierre;
received into the Academy in 1786; after
travelling for a long time in Holland and
England, settled in Paris. Works: Portrait
of Jean Baptiste Pierre (1786), École
des Beaux Arts, Paris; Artist's Wife (1787),
Female Portraits (2), Louvre, ib.—Bellier,
ii. 665; Jal, 1263.
VETSAJO, IL. See Bembo, Gian Francesco.
VETTER, HÉGÉSIPPE JEAN, born in
Paris, Sept. 21, 1820. Genre and portrait
painter, pupil of Steuben. Medals: 3d
class, 1843, 1867; 2d class, 1847, 1848,
1855; L. of Honour, 1855. Works: Bayard
as a Child (1844); Molière with the Barber
of Pezenas (1847); Alchemist (1848),
Angers Museum; Studying by Lamplight
(1850); Quarter of an Hour with Rabelais,
Master of Arms (1855); Smoker, Woman
Reading, The Story (1857); Woman Dressing,
Going out Walking (1859); Bernard
Palissy, The Declaration (1861); Molière
and Louis XIV. (1864), Luxembourg Museum;
Mascarille presenting Jodelet to Cathos
and Madelon (1865), Orléans Museum;
Mignon playing with a Cup and Ball (1866);
In the Tavern (1867); Mazarin (1872), Luxembourg
Museum; Flight into Egypt (1874);
An Exquisite (1875); The Letter (1878);
St. John the Baptist, Saint Jacques du
Haut-pas, Paris; Two Angels, Saint Louis
d'Antin.—Bellier, ii. 665; Meyer, Gesch.,
662; Larousse.
VEYRASSAT, JULES JACQUES, born
in Paris in 1825. Landscape and animal
painter, pupil of Lefman. Paints both in
oil and water-colour. Medals: 2d class,
1872; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Drinking
Cider, Harvesters (1850); View at M.
Hereau's (1852); Manure Carts (1853); Peasants
going to Fields (1855); Peasants dining
in Fields, Gleaners, Meal in Shadow of
Mill (1857); Tow-Horses on the Seine (1859),
Pau Museum; Tow-Horses in the Morning,
Harvest near Morlair, Harvest near Paris,