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Priest burning State Papers, C. P. Huntington, ib.; Captain's Letter, R. L. Cutting, ib.; Missionary's Story (1883), Morgan sale, ib., 1886, $25,500; The Arrival (1886), W. Schauss, ib.; Palm Sunday (1873), Morgan sale, 1886, $2,000; Eyes and Ears, Morgan sale, 1886, $3,500; Toreadors before entering Arena, Gulliver and the Liliputians (1870), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Roll-Call after Pillage (1867), H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia; and many others.—Bellier, ii. 668; Meyer, Gesch., 602; Larousse.
VICENTINO, ANDREA. See Andrea
Michieli.
VICES, WISDOM VICTORIOUS OVER,
Andrea Mantegna, Louvre; canvas, H. 5 ft.
3 in. × 6 ft. 3 in. Minerva and other goddesses
expel the Vices from a garden, and
welcome the approach of Justice, Force, and
Temperance from heaven. Painted after
1492; one of a series of pictures for the
boudoir of Isabella, Marchioness of Mantua;
carried off by the Germans at sack of Mantua
in 1630; passed into France; for a time
in palace of Duc de Richelieu at Richelieu.—C.
& C., N. Italy, i. 408; Villot, Cat. Louvre;
Mündler, 137.
VICTOR (Fictor), JACOMO, Dutch
school, 17th century, alive in 1672. Painted
chiefly birds; as learned as Hondecoeter,
and even more original. Probably connected
with Jan Victors. Lived in Venice
about 1663, and, as Jacob van Ruisdael often
painted the backgrounds for his pictures, he
must have been settled in Amsterdam about
1670. Works: Domestic Birds (2), Städel
Gallery, Frankfort; Dove-Cote (landscape
by Jacob van Ruisdael), Domestic Birds in
the Woods, Copenhagen Gallery; do. in a
Park (landscape by Jacob van Ruisdael),
Berlin Museum; Chickens and Dove, Dresden
Gallery; A Barnyard (attributed to
Hondecoeter), Old Pinakothek, Munich;
Rooster and Doves, Schleissheim Gallery.—Kramm,
vi. 1751; Kugler (Crowe), ii.
458; Burger, Musées, ii. 39, 315.
VICTORS (Victoor, Fictoor), JAN, Dutch
school, born about 1620, died at Amsterdam
after December, 1672. History, genre, portrait,
and landscape painter, pupil of Rembrandt,
probably about 1635-40; in his biblical
scenes adhered closely to the manner of
his master. Works: Tobias blessing his Son,
Bridgewater Gallery, London; Isaac blessing
Jacob, Girl at Casement (1640), Louvre;
Village Wedding, Antwerp Museum; Joseph
explaining the Dream, Pork Butcher (1648),
Dentist (1654), Museum, Amsterdam; Market,
Six Collection, ib.; Portrait of a Burgomaster
(1661), Haarlem Museum; Prophetess
Anna, Van der Schrieck Collection,
Louvain; Lady's Portrait, Death of David
(1642), Jacob and Laban, Boaz and Ruth,
Copenhagen Gallery; Halt before Inn, University,
Göttingen; Esther and Haman
(1642), Capture of Samson, David anointed
by Solomon (1653), Brunswick Gallery;
Hannah and Samuel with Eli (1645), Berlin
Museum; Finding of Moses, Finding of the
Cup in Benjamin's Sack, Dresden Gallery;
Boaz and Ruth, Städel Gallery, Frankfort;
Peasants in a flat Landscape, Kunsthalle,
Hamburg; Tobias mocked by his Wife,
Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Tobias recovering
Sight (1651), Old Pinakothek, Munich;
Cyrus and Astyages, Oldenburg Gallery;
Continence of Scipio (1640), Hermitage, St.
Petersburg; Landscape with Peasant Cottage,
Wiesbaden Gallery; Mother and Child,
Historical Society, New York.—Ch. Blanc,
École hollandaise; Burger, Musées, ii. 29,
179, 315; Immerzeel, iii. 191; Kramm, vi.
1752; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 379; Riegel,
Beiträge, ii. 270; Vosmaer, Rembrandt, sa
vie, 101.
VIDAL, VINCENT, born at Carcassonne
(Aude), Jan. 20, 1811. Genre and portrait
painter, pupil of Paul Delaroche. Paints
both in oil and water-colour. Medals: 3d
class, 1844; 2d class, 1849; L. of Honour,
1852. Works: Frasquita, Néedjmé, Noémi,