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 VERTANGHEN Lamp Light, Museum, Amsterdam ; Kitchen Interior, Teyler's Museum, ib.; Old Wom- an Spinning, Eotterdam Museum ; others in Lille Museum. Immerzeel, iii. 186 ; Kramm, vi 1737. VERTANGHEN, DANIEL, born at The Hague in 1598, died there in 1657. Dutch school ; history and landscape painter ; one of the best pupils of Poelenburg, whom he imitated most successfully in composition, colouring, and execution. Painted falcon hunts, bathing women, and dancing maidens in attractive landscapes. Works : Narcis- sus, Cassel Gallery ; Diana and Nymphs, Copenhagen Gallery ; do. (2), Bathing Girls surprised by Shepherds, Southern Land- scape, Schwerin Gallery ; Landscape with Bathing Nymphs, Kuusthalle, Hamburg ; Landscape with Diana and Dancing Satyr, Brunswick Gallery ; Adam and Eve driven from Paradise, Dresden Gallery. Immer- zeel, iii. 187 ; Siret (1883), ii. 372. VERTUMNUS AND POMONA, Paris ftordone, Louvre ; canvas, round, 4 ft. 3 in. diameter. Life-size figures, half-length, i standing side by side, embracing. Landon, Musee, 2d Col., iv. PL 24. By Francesco Mehi, Berlin Museum ; wood, H. 6 ft. x 4 ft. 5 in. Pomona, sitting under an elm, in a rocky landscape, turns towards Vertumnus, who is disguised as an old woman (Ovid., Met., xiv. 623). For- merly attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Original sketch at Windsor Castle. Meyer, Museen, 280. VERTUNNI, ACHILLE, Cavaliere, born at Naples ; contemporary. Landscape paint- er, pupil of Fergola ; visited Egypt and the East, and paints scenes in those countries, as well as in Italy, with remarkable power and brilliancy of colour. Medals : Vienna, 1873 ; Philadelphia, 1876 ; L. of Honour, 1878. Works : Daybreak near Cape Mise- no ; Torrent near Terni ; Ruins of Roman Villa ; Pine Forest near Ostia ; View in Austria ; Pontine Marshes ; Pool in Roman Campagna ; Ruins of Psestum, Fiirstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen ; Seashore of Por- to d' Anzio ; Castello della Pietra ; Pyra- mids of Egypt ; The Sphinx ; Sunset at Cape Fusano ; On the Nile after Sunset (1879) ; Lake Avernus, Psestum (1868), H. P. Kidder, Boston, Mass.; Bay of Naples, William H. Metcalf, Milwaukee, Wis. Art Journal (1870), 237; D. Rundschau, xx. 469. VERVEER, SALOMON LEONARDUS, born at The Hague, Nov. 30, 1813, died there, Jan. 5, 1876. Genre and marine painter, pupil of Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove ; visited the Rhine countries and France, especially Normandy, and lived for some time in Paris. Medals : Brussels, 1842, 1851 ; Philadelphia, 1876 ; Order of Leo- pold, 1851 ; Officer Order of Oaken Crown, 1863 ; Order of Lion, 1874. Works : City View with Mail Steamship Starting (1836) ; Jewish Quarter at Amsterdam (1851) ; View of Katwijk-aan-Zee, Ghent Museum ; View of Noordwijk-aan-Zee (1865), View of Sche- veuingen in Rainy Weather (1873), City View, Museum, Amsterdam ; Kirmess at Scheveningen, Museum Fodor, ib.; After- noon at Katwijk-aan-Zee, Rotterdam Muse- um ; Winter Scene (1846), Landscape (with animals by Verboeckhoven), Kunsthalle, Hamburg. His brother and pupil Elchanon (born at The Hague, April 19, 1826), paints similar subjects ; studied also under Her- man Ten Kate. Works : Little Smoker, Chil- dren with Sleigh, Rotterdam Museum ; Re- turn from the Walk (1883). Immerzeel, iii. 188 ; Kramm, vi. 1742 ; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 944. VERWEE, ALFRED JACQUES, born at Brussels ; contemporary. Landscape and animal painter, son of Louis Pierre Verwc-e (born in Brussels, 1812), pupil of Eug&ne Verboeckhoven ; paints in Brussels with great success, and his pictures are to be found in most collections in Belgium. 362