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 Van den Branden, 401; Vlaamsche school (1862), 152.

VAFFLARD, PIERRE ANTOINE AUGUSTIN, born in Paris, Dec. 19, 1777, died there after 1838. History and portrait painter, pupil of J. B. Regnault; in 1824 he restored some of the paintings in the galleries at Versailles, and in the gallery of Diana in the Tuileries; decorated several churches and palaces in oil and fresco. Court painter to the Duc d'Orléans. Medal, 1824. Works: Last Honours to Bertrand Duguesclin (1806), Rennes Museum; Column of Rosbach (1810), Versailles Museum; Electra and Orestes (1814), Dijon Museum; St. Margaret cast off by her Father (1817), Sainte Marguerite, Paris; St. Ambrose saving an Arian Priest (1819), Saint Ambroise, ib.; Pythagoras inspired by the Muses (1819), Versailles Museum; Death of St. Louis, (1819), Burial Chapel of Orléans Family, Dreux; Henri IV. in Notre Dame on Day of his Entry into Paris (1819); Ulysses and Nausicaä (1822); Last Benediction of Bishop Bourlier of Evreux; Communion of Mary Stuart; Henri IV. and the Abbess of Montmartre (1824).—Bellier, ii. 606.

VAGA, PERINO DEL, born in Florence in 1500, died in Rome, Oct. 14, 1547. Umbrian school. Real name Buonaccorsi, but called del Vaga from a Florentine painter of that name who had given him instruction. Sometimes called also Pierino. Pupil of Andrea de' Ceri, of Ridolfo Ghirlandajo, and of Vaga, who took him to Rome. Employed there by Raphael on the frescos in the Vatican, where he painted history of Joshua and of David. After death of Raphael, he aided Giulio Romano and Il Fattore, whose sister he married, in completing their master's works. Painted also in S. Marcello the Creation of Eve, which shows influence of Michelangelo. After the sack of Rome (1527), he went to Genoa, where he decorated the Palazzo Doria with frescos, now mostly destroyed. About 1542 he returned to Rome, where he painted frescos in Trinità de' Monti and in the Castello S. Angelo. His later works were only designed by him and finished by his pupils. He was buried beside Raphael in the Pantheon.—Vasari, ed. Mil., v. 587; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Burckhardt, 8, 177, 179, 181.

VAILLANT, WALLERANT, born at Lille, baptized May 30, 1623, died in Amsterdam, Aug. 28, 1677. Flemish school; portrait painter, pupil in Antwerp of Erasmus Quellin; painted in 1658 at the Coronation in Frankfort the Emperor Leopold, and then many sovereigns of Germany. Went with the Marshal de Grammont to Paris, where he painted the Queen, and many persons of distinction; returned home after four years, and settled in Amsterdam. His brother and pupil, Jacob (1628-1670), commonly called Leeuwerik (lark), was a successful history and portrait painter at the court of the Elector in Berlin; most of his pictures are in the royal palaces of Berlin and Potsdam. Works: Portraits of Man and Wife (1674), Lady with two Children, Amsterdam Museum; Managers of Orphanage (1671), Orphan Asylum, Amsterdam; Portrait of Great Elector, Brunswick Gallery; do., Royal Palace, Berlin; Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Cassel Gallery; Board with Letters Attached (1658), Dresden Gallery; Male Portrait, Oldenburg Gallery.—Bellier, ii. 607; Immerzeel, iii. 152; Kramm, vi. 1667; Kugler, ii. 332; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 279.

VAINI, PIETRO, born in Rome in 1847, died in New York in 1875. Subject and portrait painter, studied and painted in