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 Museum of Fine Arts; Young Medusa, Death of Abel (1869); Ideal Head (1871); Scene on the Mediterranean, Fete Champêtre (1874); Greek Actor's Daughter (1876); Young Marsyas, Cumæan Sibyl, A Pastoral (1878); Sleeping Girl; Venetian Model; Golden Net, Waves off Pier Head (1882); Le Mistral—The Strong North-West Wind (1884); Nausicaä and her Companions, J. P. Morgan, New-York; Maiden, E. D. Morgan Collection, ib.; Genius and Fisherman, Martin Brimmer, Boston.—Am. Art Rev. (1880), 325, 369; Mag. of Art (1885), viii. 120.

VEEN, MARTIN VAN. See Heemskerk.

VEEN, OCTAVIO VAN. See Vaenius.

VEILLON, (LOUIS) AUGUSTE, born at Bex, Canton Wallis, Dec. 29, 1834. Landscape painter, pupil in Geneva of Diday, studied in Paris and Rome and travelled in Switzerland, Holland, and Egypt; lived two years in Venice. Works: Lake of Brienz (1866), Berne Museum; Evening in Venice, Basle Museum; View at Brunnen, Zürich Museum; Two Views on Lake Geneva; Evening on Banks of the Nile; Arabian Camp; Lake Geneva, Evening near Cairo (1882).—Müller, 532; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 703, 741.

VEIT, PHILIPP, born in Berlin, Feb. 13, 1793, died in Mentz, Dec. 18, 1877. History painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Matthäi, then went to Vienna to his stepfather, Friedrich von Schlegel; in 1813 he entered the German army as a volunteer, fought in the battles of Dresden, Culm, and Leipsic, and was decorated with the Iron Cross. In 1815 he joined in Rome the circle of Cornelius, Overbeck, and Schadow, with whom he painted the frescos in the Casa Bartholdi and Villa Massimi; in 1830 made director of the Städel Institute at Frankfort; resigned in 1843 and settled at Sachsenhausen, whence, in 1853, he moved to Mentz as director of the Gallery. One of the chief representatives of the religious-romantic school. Works: Triumph of Religion, Vatican Gallery, Rome; Madonna in Glory, S. Trinità de' Monti, ib. (cartoon in Darmstadt Museum); Judith; Christ on Mount of Olives, Naumburg Cathedral; Christ knocking at the Door; Presentation in the Temple (1829); Simeon in the Temple; Germania; Magnificat; Repose in Egypt, Mary and Elizabeth, Portrait of Abbé Noirlieu, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Assumption (1846), Cathedral, ib.; Charlemagne, Otto the Great, Frederic II., Henry VII., Römer, ib.; The Two Marys at Christ's Tomb, National Gallery, Berlin; St. George; Good Samaritan; Egyptian Darkness. In fresco: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, Allegory on the Seven Fruitful Years, Casa Bartholdi, Rome (cartoon in Städel Gallery); Pictures to Dante's "Paradise," Villa Massimi, ib.; Allegory on Restoration of Coliseum, Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican, ib.; Triumph of Christianity, Italia, Germania (1838), Städel Institute, Frankfort (cartoons in Carlsruhe Gallery); Cartoons of Cycle (executed, 1868, by Settegast, Lasinsky, and Hermann), Mentz Cathedral. His elder brother Johannes (died in Rome in 1852), studied in Vienna and from 1811 in Rome, where he was allied with Cornelius, Schadow, and Overbeck, and took especially Perugino for his model. In the Catholic Church in Berlin is an Adoration of the Shepherds by him. He painted also excellent portraits. —Art Journal (1865), 70; Dohme, K. u. K. des xix. Jahrh., i. and ii.; Förster, iv. 221; v. 351; Jordan (1885), ii. 229; Kaulen, 31; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 19; Nagler, xx. 1; Reber, ii. 223; Riegel, Gesch. des Wiederauflebens. der d. K, 322, 345; Zeitschr. f. b. K, iv., 62; xv. 29, 73.

VELASCO, LUIS DE, died in Toledo, March 11, 1606. Spanish school. Was living in Toledo in 1564; became painter to the Chapter there in 1581. Best works: