Page:Cyclopedia of painters and paintings (IA cyclopediaofpain04cham).pdf/402
Bultynck, a currier of Bruges, who presented it to his guild in 1479; dedicated in 1480 in Chapel of the Tanners, Bruges, where it remained until about 1780, when it was presented to the Austrian Governor-General of Brabant; passed in 1813 from the Brion family at Brussels to the Collection of the Boisserée brothers; acquired thence by the Pinakothek. Engraved by E. Schäffer; R. Peztsch in Förster's Denkmale. Lithographed by Strixner, Freymann.—Kugler (Crowe), i. 97; Eastlake, Notes, 139.
VIRGIN, SEVEN SORROWS OF THE,
Hans Memling, Turin Gallery; wood, H. 1
ft. 9 in. × 3 ft. The story of the Passion, in
a landscape. In background, the Entrance
of Christ into Jerusalem; then the Saviour in
the House of the Pharisee, and the Last
Supper; next, nearer the spectator, the Betrayal
by Judas, the Flagellation, the March
to Calvary, the Crucifixion, the Descent
from the Cross, the Resurrection, the Descent
into Limbus, the Appearance to the
Magdalen, and the Supper at Emmaus.
In the foreground, a donor and his wife are
kneeling. There are hundreds of figures in
this miniature, all of them delicately finished
and brilliantly coloured. Probably the central
part of an altarpiece, painted in 1477-78,
by order of Willem Vrelandt, for the
booksellers' chapel in Bruges. The donors
are supposed to be Vrelandt and his wife.
The picture was sold in 1624. Saved from
the plunder of the Dominican Convent of
Bosco, near Alessandria, Piedmont, in the
French Revolution, and subsequently presented
to the king. The wings are supposed
to be lost.—C. & C., Flemish Painters,
267.
VIRGINIA, DEATH OF, G. G. Lethière,
Louvre; canvas, H. 15 ft. × 25 ft. 8 in.;
signed, dated 1828. Virginius, having slain
his daughter, holds up the bloody knife and
threatens Appius Claudius, the Decemvir.
Salon, 1831; presented to Louvre in 1848
by M. Bayard. Original study in Salon of
1795.
VISCH, MATHIAS DE, born at Reninghe,
West Flanders, in 1702, died at Bruges,
April 23, 1765. Flemish school; history
and portrait painter, pupil at Bruges of Joseph
van den Kerckhove; was the first to
win (1720) the prize at the newly founded
Academy, went in 1723 to Paris and thence
soon after to Italy, visiting Rome, Venice,
where he studied under Piazzetta, then
Parma and Piacenza; returned to Bruges
after nine years' absence, established a successful
life-model school in 1735, and became
professor at the Academy in 1739.
Works: Hagar consoled by the Angel, St.
Jacques, Bruges; Allegory of Fine Arts,
Portraits of Himself (2, one dated 1740), do.
of the Painter Suweyns (1740), Academy, ib.—Immerzeel,
iii. 197; Weale, Cat. Bruges
Acad., 91.
VISCHER, AUGUST, born at Waldangelloch,
Baden, in 1822. History and genre
painter, pupil of Munich Academy under
Cornelius and Schnorr, and of Antwerp
Academy under Wappers and Deitmann,
then of De Block; settled in Munich in
1850, visited Paris in 1853-54; became Baden
court painter in 1864 and professor at
the Polytechnic Institute in Carlsruhe in
1870. Gold medal, 1851. Works: Sailors'
Dance in Dutch Tavern, Scene in Baden
Revolution, Diana of Poitiers before Francis
I. (1850); Capture of Olden Barneveld
(1851), Coligny at St. Quentin surprised by
the Spaniards (1852), Carlsruhe Art Union;
Capture of Götz von Berlichingen; Capture
of Francis I. at Pavia (1857); Berthold of
Zähringen defeating the Milanese at Cassano
in 1158 (1864), Carlsruhe Gallery; Storming
of Rome by the Germans (1875). In
fresco: Storming of Ofen by Elector Max
Emanuel, Entry of Elector Max Joseph into
Munich in 1799, National Museum, Munich.—Dioskuren
(1870), 185; Kaulen, 310; Regnet,
ii. 286.
VISITATION, Mariotto Albertinelli, Uffizi,
Florence; wood, small figures; dated 1503.
Visit of Mary to Elizabeth (Luke i. 39).
The Virgin and Elizabeth meet under a dec-