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- lage inn. Many small figures. Painted in
1811 for J. Angerstein, who paid for it 800 guineas; bought with his collection in 1824. Engraved by C. W. Marr; G. Mosse; E. Smith; W. Finden; W. Greatbach; P. Lightfoot.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Heaton, Works of Sir D. W.; Cat. Angerstein Gal., No. 30.
Village Festival, David Teniers, younger, Vienna Museum.
VILLAGE LADIES (Demoiselles du village),
Gustave Courbet, Thomas Wigglesworth,
Boston; canvas, H. 6 ft. × 7 ft. Three
ladies, standing in foreground, giving alms
to a beggar girl; a dog is beside them, and
two cows at right; background, a landscape
of rolling hills. Painted in 1852; Paris Exhibition,
1855.—Art Treasures of America,
iii. 84.
VILLAGE POLITICIANS, Sir David
Wilkie, Earl of Mansfield, England. A
group of rustics in heated discussion
around a table in a kitchen, with others near
a fire in the background. Royal Academy,
1806; sold to Lord Mansfield for 35 guineas.
Sketch at Hadzor. Engraved by A. Raimbach.—Heaton,
Works of D. W.; Painters
of Georgian Era, 51; Redgrave, Century,
ii. 257.
VILLAVICENCIO, Don PEDRO NUÑEZ
DE, born at Seville in 1635, died there
in 1700. Spanish school; pupil of Murillo,
and though only an amateur, won distinction.
Becoming a knight of St. John of
Jerusalem, went to Malta and studied there
under Il Calabrese; on his return to Seville
joined the Academy and resumed his friendly
relations with Murillo, who died in his
arms. Painted historical and genre subjects
and portraits. Works: Boys playing
Dice, Museo del Prado; Infant Christ bearing
a Cross, Suermondt Museum, Aix-la-Chapelle;
Two Boys playing Dice, Hermitage,
St. Petersburg.—Stirling, iii. 1104;
Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Madrazo; Curtis,
336.
VILLEGAS, JOSÉ; contemporary.
Genre painter, pupil of Mariaus Fortuny,
whose manner he follows. Studio in Rome.