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 *relling over Game of Dice, Herminia and the Shepherds, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Three Apostles in Conversation, Oldenburg Gallery; A Repast, National Museum, Pesth; Christ driving the Money Changers from the Temple, Peter's Denial, Soldiers at Dice, A Concert, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; St. John the Baptist in Meditation, Stockholm Museum; Moses with the Law Tables, Museum, Vienna; Musical Trio, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; St. Cecilia with two Holy Women and an Angel, Czernin Gallery, ib.; "You see the Beam in your Neighbour's Eye," etc., Guitar Player, Mountainous Landscape with Figures and Animals, Uffizi, Florence; Christ and the Doctors, Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome; Martyrdom of S. Processa and Martinian, Vatican, ib. (copy in mosaic, by Cristofori, St. Peter's, ib.); Joseph interpreting the Dreams, Palazzo Borghese, ib.; Peter's Denial, Palazzo Corsini, ib.; Roman Charity, St. John, Palazzo Doria, ib.; Beheading of St. John, Rome Triumphant, Palazzo Sciarra, ib.; Holy Family, Palazzo Spada, ib.; Christ at the Column, Turin Gallery; Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, Madrid Museum.—Bellier, i. 141; Ch. Blanc, École française, i.; Dauvergne, Le Valentin (Almanach du départm. de Seine-et-Marne, 1862), 116; Emeric-David, Nat. hist. sur les chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture, etc. (Paris, 1854), 278; Mariette, Abecedario, v. 357.

VALENTINIAN I., Roman Emperor ( 364-375), was an amateur painter and modeller.—Aurel. Vict., Epit. de Cæs., 45, 7; Ammianus Marcellinus, xxx. 9, 4; Overbeck, Schriftquellen, 2135.

VALE OF REST, Sir John E. Millais, Bart., H. Tait, Streatham, England; canvas. Illustrating an ancient Scottish superstition, that when a coffin-shaped cloud is seen in the sky it is a symbol of approaching death. Scene in a convent garden, at sunset; amongst the hillocks of graves, with gray headstones looking sad in the waning light, are two women, one, a novice, up to her knees in a grave from which she is vigorously throwing out the earth with a spade; the other, an older nun, sitting on a prostrate headstone holding a rosary, her face showing that she has seen the coffin-shaped cloud which hangs over the setting sun. Royal Academy, 1859. Graham sale (1886), £3,000. Indian ink sketch (1858), H. V. Tebbs.

VALERO, CRISTÓBAL, born at Alboraya, Valencia, died at Valencia, Dec. 18, 1789. Spanish school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Evaristo Muñoz (1671-1737), then in Rome of Sebastiano Conca; after his return he became a priest, and soon after director of the newly erected Academy of S. Barbara (1754), which was afterwards made a royal institution under the name of S. Carlos (1768), with Valero as its president. Honorary member of San Fernando Academy, 1762. Works: Two Scenes from Don Quixote, Madrid Museum; pictures in S. Francisco, S. Julian, S. Andrea, the Capuchins, the Trinitarians and the Mínimos, Valencia; Portraits of Prelates, Archbishop's Palace, ib.

VALKENBURG, DIRK, born in Amsterdam in 1675, died there in 1721. Dutch school; still-life and animal painter, pupil of Jan Weenix, whose style he acquired so successfully that his pictures are frequently mistaken for his master's; was also a good portrait painter, and in 1695 went to Germany, where he was employed by different princes, and long resided. Works: Dead Hare and Poultry (1704), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Bear attacked by Dogs (1703), Gallery, Copenhagen; Dead Game and Implements of the Chase, Moltke Collection, ib.; Hunting Booty (4), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; do. (5), Harrach Gallery, ib.; Immerzeel, iii. 154.

VALLANCE, WILLIAM F., born at Paisley, Scotland; contemporary. Marine painter, pupil of Robert Scott Lauder and of the Royal Scottish Academy. Studio in Edin