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contemporaries. History painters in Brussels, with an archaic tendency in opposition to the realism of the day. Order of Leopold. Works by Albert: Charles V. at San Yuste; Jacobea of Bavaria interceding for her Husband; Pope Paul III. before Luther's Portrait (Munich Exhibition, 1883). Works by Julian: St. Elizabeth expelled by Inhabitants of Eisenach; Last Days of Virgin in Jerusalem, Palace Guard under Kings of Judea, St. Cecilia in Prison (Munich Exhibition, 1883).—Müller, 541; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 313.
VRIENDT, FRANS DE. See Floris.
VRIES, ABRAHAM DE, born at Rotterdam,
died at The Hague before or in 1662.
Dutch school; portrait painter, active at
Amsterdam about 1632, when he appears
to have been influenced by Dirck van Santvoort
and Thomas de Keyser, while afterwards
he followed the manner of Rembrandt.
Registered in the guild at The Hague in
1644. Works: Portrait of David de Moor
(1640), Amsterdam Museum; Portrait of a
Burgomaster (1639), do. of Old Lady (1644),
Rotterdam Museum; Portrait, Berlin Museum;
Lady in Mourning (1692), Old Pinakothek,
Munich.—Meyer, Gemälde königl.
Mus., 515; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xviii. 346.
VRIES, ADRIAAN DE, born in The
Hague in 1601, died after 1643. Dutch
school; portrait painter. The frequently
false signatures upon his pictures have robbed
him of well-deserved fame. Rubens
and Van Dyck, who were his friends, highly
esteemed his talent.
Works: Portraits in
Leyden, Gotha
(1643), Dresden
(1639), New York, and Vienna Museums,
and Schleissheim Gallery.—Gaz. des B. Arts
(1872), vi. 479; Kramm, vi. 1803.
VRIES, JAN FREDEMAN DE, born at Leeuwarden in 1527, died in 1608. Dutch school; architecture painter. First apprenticed for five years to the glass painter, Reyer Gerritszen, in Amsterdam. Being employed in 1569 on the triumphal arch for the entry of Charles V. into Antwerp, he was led to study the works of Vitruvius and Serlio. He then painted in Mechlin, Frankfort, Brunswick, Prague, Hamburg, Dantzic, etc., many fine perspective views, enlivened with well-drawn figures. His compositions are ingenious and varied, and treated in a delicate, clear tone. Works: Ave Maria in a House Interior, Mr. Robinson's Collection, London; Interior of Antwerp Cathedral (figures by Peeter Brueghel, the elder), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Interior of Cathedral at Aix-la-Chapelle, Stuttgart Museum; Gothic Church Interior, Architectural Pieces (4, two dated 1596), Vienna Museum; Allegories, Town Hall, Dantzic.—Immerzeel, iii. 210; Kramm, vi. 1804; Kugler (Crowe), i. 262; Engerth, Belved. Gal., ii. 540.
VRIES, ROELOF (or Reinier) DE, 17th
century. Dutch school; landscape painter,
in the manner of Jacob van Ruisdael, perhaps
his pupil; flourished at Haarlem about
1643-69. Works: The Hunt (with Barend
Graat), Pigeon House, Coursing, New York
Museum; Stag Hunt, Brussels Museum;
Rustic Mansion, Amsterdam Museum; A
Herd, Hague Museum; Castle Ruins on a
River, Copenhagen Gallery; Wooded Landscape,
Brunswick Gallery; Ruins on the
Water, Tower by Woods, Wooded Landscape
with Herd, Berlin Museum; Mill in
the Woods, Old Pinakothek, Munich. Others
in Städel Gallery, Frankfort (4); Augsburg
Gallery; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Ferdinandeum,
Innsbruck (?); Leipsic Museum
(?); Schleissheim Gallery;
Harrach, and
Liechtenstein Galleries,
Vienna; Turin
Gallery (3).—Archief
vor nederl. Kunstgesch.,
ii. 80; Meyer,
Gemälde königl. Mus., 516; De Stuers, 180;
Zeitschr. f. b. K., vii. 278.
VROMANS, NICOLAAS, called the Snake Painter, born 1655 (?) or 1660, died 1719. Dutch school; painted plants and shrubbery, with frogs, snakes, mice, spiders, etc., with