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Vliet, born at Delft about 1610, pupil of Rembrandt, are portraits in the Museums at Rotterdam and Leipsic, and a Baptism of the Eunuch, in the Oldenburg Gallery.
VOELCKER, GOTTFRIED WILHELM,
born in Berlin, March 23, 1775, died there,
Nov. 1, 1849. Flower painter, pupil of Johann
Friedrich Schultze, whom he succeeded
as director of the Royal Porcelain Factory.
Member of Berlin Academy in 1811. Professor
and privy councillor. Order of Red
Eagle; Hanover Order of Guelph. Works:
Fruit in Glass Bowl (1827), Flower-Piece
(1837), National Gallery, Berlin; Flowers
on a Table (1820), Raczynski Gallery, ib.;
Flowers and Fruit (1834), Königsberg Museum;
do. (1842), Schwerin Gallery. His
son, Friedrich Wilhelm (1799-1870), distinguished
himself in the same branch. Work:
Flower-Piece (1821), New Pinakothek, Munich.—Rosenberg,
Berl. Malersch., 351.
VOET, JACOB FERDINAND, born at Antwerp, baptized March 14, 1639, died after 1691 (?). Flemish school; portrait painter, formed himself under the influence of Van Dyck, then in Rome under that of Carlo Maratti; flourished about 1660-91, chiefly in Rome, under the Popes Alexander VII. and Clement IX., in Turin, Paris, and Antwerp. Works: Portrait of Cardinal Azzolini (1654), Berlin Museum; do. of Pope Clement IX. (1667).—Kramm, vi. 1782.
VOET, KAREL BORCHAERT, born at
Zwolle about 1670, died in 1745. Dutch
school; still-life painter, pupil of his brother
and another unknown master; entered,
at the age of nineteen, the service of the
Earl of Portland, and accompanied him
several times to England. Finally lived at
Dordrecht. Works: Memento Mori (1741),
Kitchen Scenes (2), Schwerin Gallery.—Immerzeel,
iii. 203; Schlie, 669.
VOGEL, CHRISTIAN LEBRECHT, born
at Dresden, April 4, 1759, died there, April
11, 1816. History and portrait painter, pupil
of Schenau; invited to Castle Wildenfels
in 1780 by his patron, Count Solms, he
painted there many portraits and family
groups of distinguished persons. Member
of Dresden Academy in 1800, professor in
1814. Was especially successful with children's
portraits. Works: Two Children
playing with lighted Candle, Christiania
Gallery; Artist's Children with Picture
Book, Dresden Museum.—Nagler, xx. 491.
VOGEL, HUGO, born at Magdeburg,
Feb. 15, 1855. Historical genre painter,
pupil of Wilhelm Sohn at Düsseldorf. Gold
medal, Berlin, 1883. Works: Luther at the
Wartburg preaching from his Translation
of the Bible (1882), Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Beethoven at the Piano (1883); Reception
of the French Huguenots by the Great
Elector (1884); Duke Ernst the Confessor
taking Communion at Celle—1535 (1885),
Provinzial Museum, Hanover.—Kunst-Chronik,
xviii. 549; xx. 753; xxi. 243; Kunst
f. Alle, i.; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xxi. 256.
VOGEL, LUDWIG, born at Zürich, July
10, 1788, died there, Aug. 21, 1879. History
and genre painter, pupil of Heinrich
Fuessli and of Konrad Gessner, then of Vienna
Academy; went in 1810 with Overbeck
to Rome, and, after having studied, at
Florence and Orvieto, Perugia, Siena, Pisa,
etc., the masterworks of Signorelli, Giotto,
and other Pre-Raphaelite masters, returned
to Zürich in 1813, and until 1820 studied
Swiss types on trips through his native
mountains. Works: Return Home of Swiss
Warrior in 16th Century (1810); Return of
Victors at Morgarten (1813); Struthan von
Winkelried fighting the Dragon (1814); La
Benichon (1819); Flight of Charles the Bold
(1838); Ulrich Zwingli as Chaplain (1838);
Arnold von Winkelried at Sempach (1840,
1856); Capuchin Refectory (1852); Tell's
Chapel, Woman of Grisons in Suabian War,
Prayer at the Grave (1844); Reception of
Zürich into Confederacy, Zürich Gallery;