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 VEKOISTESE'S WIFE Orleans Gallery ; sold in 1793 for 500. Engraved by L. Deplaces. Cab. Crozat, ii. PI. 23 ; Waagen, Treasures, ii. 113, 498. VERONESE'S WIFE, portrait, Paolo Veronese, Palazzo Pitti, Florence ; canvas, oval, H. 2 ft. 5 in. x 1 ft. 11 in. Bust, full face ; black dress, white embroidered veil, and pearl necklace. Half figure. Cat. Pal. Pitti. VERONICA, THE. See Ecce Homo, Murillo. VERRIO, ANTONIO, born in Naples in 1634, died at Hampton Court, England, June 17, 1707. History painter ; after painting for a while at Toulouse, France, where he executed an altarpiece for the Church of the Carmelites, he went to Eng- land in 1671, at the invitation of Charles H., who employed him in the decoration of Windsor Castle. He was paid nearly 7,000 for his work there, in which he was contin- ued by James IT. In the great hall of Christ's Hospital is a work by him ninety feet long, representing the governor with the officers and children returning thanks to that mon- arch for the hospital charter. At the time of the Revolution he refused to work for William HI., but after employment at Chats- worth and at Burleigh he painted his well- known work, the great staircase at Hamp- ton Court. Redgrave. VERROCCHIO, ANDREA DEL, born in Florence in 1435, died in Venice, June 25, 1488. Florentine school ; real name An- drea da Michele di Francesco de' Cioni. Like Antonio Polla- juolo, he was a gold- smith, sculptor, and worker in bronze, as well as a painter. The only example of his pictorial work, the Bap- tism of Christ, in the Florence Academy, shows that he combined the peculiarities of Fra Filippo, of Andrea del Castagno, and of Domenico Veneziano. His modelling is conscientious, but his drapery is lifeless. Verrocchio was the master of Leonardo da Vinci and of Lorenzo di Credi. C. & C., Italy, ii. 400 ; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., v. 139 ; ed. Mil., iii. 357 ; Burckhardt, 134, 351, 357 ; Lttbke, Gesch. ital. Mai., i. 316. VERSCHAEREN, JOANNES ANTONI- US, born in Antwerp, April 28, 1803, died there, May 30, 1863. History, portrait, and landscape painter, pupil of Herreyns ; formed himself after old French and Italian masters in England, France, Germany, especially at Munich, and in Italy. Member of Antwerp Academy in 1837. Professor ; Order of Leo- pold, 1847. Works : Rebekah and Eliezer (1836) ; Ruth and Boaz (1840) ; Descent from the Cross, St. Mi- chael's, Lou- vain ; Annun- ciation, Bois-le-Duc Cathedral ; Portrait of Herreyns, Antwerp Museum. Immerzeel, iii. 181. VERSCHURINGH, HENDRIK, born at Gorinchem in 1627, drowned near Dor- drecht, April 26, 1690. Dutch school ; bat- tle and genre painter, pupil of Dirk Govertsz and of Jan Both in Utrecht ; continued his studies in Italy, and after his return to Hol- land in 1662 frequented armies and camps, where he sketched from life and painted a number of skirmishes, camps, guard-houses, etc., with great truth and felicitous inven- tion. Works : Shoeing a Horse (1667), Rot- terdam Museum ; Cavalry Skirmish, Bam- berg Gallery ; Riding School (1679), Trav- ellers attacked by Robbers, Distribution of Booty, Brunswick Gallery ; Scene by Sut- lers' Tents (1674), Berlin Museum ; Detach- ment of Army Starting (1670), Christ con- ducted to Golgotha, Dresden Gallery ; Halt of Travellers, Copenhagen Gallery ; Skir- mish between Troopers, Christiania Gal- lery ; Battle-Piece, Hermannstadt Museum ; Piazza Aracoeli in Rome, Leipsic Museum ; Dutch Coast View, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Warrior and Peasant busy with Horses, Ol- denburg Gallery ; Ships at Anchor near a 360