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VOLTZ, LUDWIG, born at Augsburg in 1825. Landscape and animal painter, brother and pupil of preceding, having first been instructed by his father, and in 1843-45 pupil of Munich Academy; is especially successful with horse portraits. Works: Peasant with Ploughing Team, St. Gall Museum; Stags Fighting; After the Chase; Horses in Pasture; Harvest Scene, Forester's Daughter feeding Deer (1860).
VONNOH, ROBERT WILLIAM, born in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 17, 1858. Portrait painter; pupil in Paris at the Académie Julien, in 1881-82, under Boulanger and Lefèbvre, where he won the prize for painting the male torso. His portrait of John S. Conway, Milwaukee, Wis., was hung on the line in the Salon of 1882, and he was awarded a gold medal at the Massachusetts Mechanics' Charitable Association Exhibition in 1884.
VONWYL, JAKOB, born at Lucerne in
1595, died in 1621. Excellent painter in
the manner of Holbein; many of his best
works were destroyed by fire; his masterpiece,
The Dance of Death, in seven large
panels and a small one, with twenty-four
groups, is in the Canton Library at Lucerne.—Meyer
von Knonau.
VOOGD, HENDRIK, born in Amsterdam
in 1766, died in Rome, Sept. 4, 1839. Landscape
and animal painter, pupil of Amsterdam
Academy and of Juriaan Andriessen;
went in 1788 to Rome. Member of Amsterdam
Academy. Order of Lion. Works:
Landscape with Buffaloes, formerly in Pavilion,
Haarlem; View of the Campagna
(1809), Gotha Museum.—Immerzeel, iii.
205; Kramm, vi. 1788.
VOORHOUT, JOHANNES, the elder,
born at Uithoorn, near Amsterdam, in 1647,
died before May 12, 1723. History and
portrait painter, pupil at Gouda of C. Verbout,
and at Amsterdam of Johan van
Noordt; went in 1672 to Frederikstadt,
thence to Hamburg, and afterwards returned
to Amsterdam. Works: Annunciation of
Samson's Birth to Manoah and Wife, Endymion
and Luna, Venus and Cupid on Clouds,
Good Samaritan (1698), Brunswick Gallery;
Lady with little Girl, Amalienstift, Dessau.—Immerzeel,
iii. 205; Kramm, vi. 1789;
Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 309.
VOORT, CORNELIS VAN DER, born at
Antwerp in 1576, died at Amsterdam, Nov.
2, 1624. Dutch school; portrait painter,
probably pupil of Cornelis Ketel at Amsterdam,
where he ranked among the distinguished
artists of his day. Works: Regents-Piece
with six portraits (1618), do.
with five, Archery-Piece with twelve (1623),
do. with twenty-one, Amsterdam Museum.
Kramm, vi. 1790.
VOORT, MICHIEL FRANS VAN DER,
born at Antwerp, baptized April 28, 1714,
died there, March 28, 1777. Flemish school;
history painter, son and probably pupil of
Joseph van der Voort, or studied under one
of his relatives, all of whom were artists.
Dean of the guild in 1751-52. One of the
directors of the Academy in 1752-62.
Works: Entry of Prince Charles of Lorraine
into Antwerp (attributed to Jan Jozef Horemans,
the younger), City Hall, Antwerp;
Two allegorical Bas-reliefs, Museum, ib.—Cat.
du Mus. d'Anvers, 437; Van den Branden,
1194.
VORSTERMANS, JAN, born at Bommel
in 1643, died about 1699. Dutch school;
landscape painter, pupil of H. Saftleven;
painted especially Rhine views with numerous
accessories, true in colouring and highly
finished. Later he went to England, and
painted a royal summer palace with many
courtiers for Charles II., for which he demanded
so high a price that it was not accepted.
Works: Landscape with Fortifications,
Dresden Gallery; Two Landscapes,
Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna.—Immerzeel,
iii. 206; Kramm, vi. 1792.