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 VERA angelo, Naples Museum ; Nativity, Vienna Museum ; Holy Family (1563), Leipsic Mu- seum. Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 386 ; Lubke, Gesch. ital. Mai., ii. 140. VERA, Don ALEJO, born at Vifiuela, Ma- laga ; contemporary. Spanish school ; his- tory and genre painter, pupil of Frederico de Madrazo ; studied afterwards in Rome ; contributed much to raising art in Spain to a higher standard. Medals : 1862, 1871 ; Philadelphia, 1876. Works : Burial of St. Lawrence in Catacombs of Rome (1862) ; Communion of Early Christians in the Cata- combs ; Pompeiian Lady at Toilet (1871) ; Old Roman Woman with Parrot ; Jewelry Store at Pompeii ; Heroism of Numantines (1881). VERBEECK, FRANS, born at Antwerp, baptized Feb. 21, 1686, died there, May 28, 1755. Flemish school ; genre and battle painter, pupil of Jan Baptist de Bie ; master of the guild in 1710, and its dean in 1724, 1730, 1737, and 1746. He was also one of the directors of the Antwerp Academy. His only still known work is a Visit of the Ab- bot of St. Michael to the Fencers' Guild (1713), Antwerp Museum. Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers, 526 ; Van den Branden, 1193. VERBEECK (Verbeecq), PIETER (COR- NELISZ), born probably at Haarlem, flour- ished about 1638-50. Dutch school ; ani- mal and battle painter ; received as master into the guild at Alkmanr in 1635, and at The Hague in 1645. Works : Skirmish of Oriental Hoi-semen (1638), Berlin Museum ; Man and Woman on Horseback, Groom holding Horse, Halt before Tavern (2), Cas- sel Gallery ; Horse and Rider at Cistern (1642), Moltke Collection, Copenhagen ; Saddled Horse fastened to a Hedge, Old Pinakothek, Munich. Immerzeel, iii. 167 ; Kramm, vi. 1701. VERBOECKHOVEN, EUGENE JO- SEPH, born at Warneton, West Flanders, June 9, 1799, died in Brussels, Jan. 19, 1881. Animal painter, son and pupil of the sculp- tor Barthele mi Verboeckhoven ; visited Eng- land in 1826, Germany in 1828, France and Italy in 1841, and settled in Brussels. Mem- ber of Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Amster- dam, and St. Petersburg Academies. L. of Hon- our; Commander of Or- ders of Leopold and Francis Joseph ; Bava- rian Order of Michael ; Portuguese Order of Christ; Order of Iron Cross (1830). Works: Arabian Stallion (1824); Horses attacked by Wolves (1836), Land- scapes with Cattle (2, 1824, 1825), Muse- um, Amsterdam ; Sheep and Lamb, Sheep in a Grove, Landscape with Resting Cat- tle, Museum Fodor, ib. ; Wounded Lion ; Horses in Roman Campagna ; Return from Market ; Market at Ghent ; Shepherd near Tivoli (1846), Bad Neighbours (1853), Herd driven to Pasture (1856), National Gal- lery, Berlin ; Bull in a Landscape (1829), Raczynski Gallery, ib. ; Cows in Pasture, Ravenc Gallery, ib. ; Sheep Stable, Carls- ruhe Gallery; do. (1841), Stadel Gallery, Frankfort ; Woodland Scene with Cattle (1836), Christiania Gallery ; Sheep in Pas- ture (1838), Sheep Resting, Donkeys and Sheep (1839), Kuusthalle, Hamburg ; Man with Calf, Konigsberg Museum ; White Horse by Cottage (1837), Peasant Asleep with Horse watched by Dog (1839), Sheep Pictures (4, 1838, 1840, 1846, 1859), Cow and Goat in Stable (1841), Leipsic Muse- um ; Sheep Stable (1844), New Pinakothek, Munich ; Landscape with Animals (1846), Ghent Museum ; Sheep surprised by Storm, Souvenir of Roman Campagna, Brussels Museum ; Shepherdess in the Campine (1855) ; Sheep in Downs of Ostend (1878) ; Dead Sheep in Scottish Landscape, Scottish ne JVH- 183} Ponies, Bouquet (1880) ; Frightened Bull, J. J. Astor, New York ; Sheep Interior, H. 847