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animal painter, pupil of Frans Hals; entered the guild in 1649, travelled in 1652-53 through Germany, Switzerland, and France. After his return he painted portraits in the vigorous style of his master. As few pictures by him are known, though he was very industrious, it is to be supposed that many of his works pass under the name of Frans Hals. Works: Organ Grinder, Museum, Vienna; Itinerant Musicians, Old Man's Head, Old Woman's do., Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Male and Female Portraits, New York Museum. His son Laurens (1658-1729) was a landscape and flower painter, pupil of Berchem, whose manner he imitated; the latter's son, Vincent Laurensz the younger, born in Haarlem, June 10, 1686, died there, May 16, 1742, painted the same subjects. By him: City Hall of Haarlem (1729), Haarlem Museum. Vincent Janszoon van der Vinne (born in Haarlem, Jan. 31, 1736, died there, Jan. 15, 1811) was a nephew of the last named. By him: Mountainous Landscape with River, Haarlem Museum.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1872), vi. 477; Immerzeel, iii. 195; Kramm, vi. 1767; Siret (1883), ii. 380; Van der Willigen, 314.

VINTAGE FESTIVAL, Alma-Tadema, Baron T. H. W. Schröder, Paris. Scene in a sumptuous Bacchic Temple, Rome; in centre, an altar, past which is moving a procession led by a beautiful priestess, followed by maidens playing the double pipe, and by dancing girls beating timbrels; after these march priests bearing jars of wine. In the court of the temple are more dancers and timbrel-players of both sexes. Painted in 1870; Philadelphia Exposition, 1876. Engraved by Aug. Blanchard.—Art Journal (1871), 147, 166; (1883), 34.

VINTAGE AT MACON, Joseph M. W. Turner, Earl of Yarborough, London; canvas. Festival at the opening of the Vintage at Macon, France. Male and female vintagers dancing under a group of trees on a terraced hill-side overlooking a wide champaign, with a smooth river flowing towards the left; in the mid-distance, a bridge connecting the two parts of the town, which lie on opposite sides. One of Turner's best pictures; recalls Claude and Poussin. Royal Academy, 1803.—Athen., Jan., 1875, 90; Waagen, Art Treasures, iv. 70; Hamerton, Life.

VINTON, FREDERICK PORTER, born at Bangor, Me., in 1846. Figure and portrait painter, pupil of W. M. Hunt in Boston; in 1875 of Bonnat in Paris; in 1876 of Duveneck, Dietz, and Wagner, in Munich; and later of Jean Paul Laurens. Associate of the National Academy, New York. Studio in Boston. Works: Celestina (1875); Italian Girl, Head of Neapolitan Boy, Head of Old French Peasant Woman (1878); French Peasant Woman, T. B. Clarke, New York; Portraits of S. H. Russell (1880), Wendell Phillips (1882); Street in Toledo—Spain (1884); Portrait, T. G. Appleton, Boston.

VIOLANTE, Palma Vecchio, Vienna Museum; wood, H. 1 ft. 6 in. × 1 ft. 3 in. Bust of a beautiful girl, with rich tresses falling upon her neck; dressed in blue bodice, showing plaited chemisette, and yellow brocade sleeves. Same figure, holding a palm, in Palma's Madonna (attributed to Giorgione) at Madrid. From collection of Paolo del Sera. C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 480; Boschini, Carta del Navegar, 368.

VIOLINIST (Violinista or Suonatore), Raphael, Palazzo Sciarra-Colonna, Rome; wood, dated 1518. Bust of a youth, about twenty years old, three-quarters face, wearing a black cap, from which his brown hair falls on his shoulders, and a green mantle, trimmed with black velvet, with a fur collar; holds in left hand a violin bow and some laurel leaves and immortelles. Passavant believes it a portrait of Andrea Marone, a famous improvisatore of Brescia in time of Leo X. Engraved by J. Felsing.—Passavant, ii. 275; Müntz, 532, 536; Springer, 211.