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 1662. Dutch school; landscape, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of the goldsmith Simon Valck, after having received a classical and scientific education at Leyden; master of St. Luke's guild at The Hague in 1625, and one of the founders of the new guild in 1656; painted historical and allegorical scenes, battles, hunts, conflagrations, into all of which he introduced numerous well-drawn and finely executed figures, of a portrait-like character in the historical pieces. Works: Truce Festival (1616), Louvre; Pêche aux ames (1614), Prince Maurice with his Brothers and Cousins on Horseback (1618), Prince Maurice visiting Kirmess at Ryswyk (1618), Prince Maurice and Frederik Hendrik on Horseback, King of Bohemia and Suite hunting (1627), Meeting of Boudewyn van Heusden with English Ambassador, Prince Maurice lying in State, Amsterdam Museum; Ronde de Gueux, Scuffle between Shopkeepers (1637), Hague Museum; Prince Frederik Hendrik and Suite (1635), Rotterdam Museum; Assembly before a Castle, Cassel Gallery; Gypsy Family in a Ruin, Brunswick Gallery; Prince Maurice and Brothers on Horseback, Darmstadt Museum; Allegory on Poverty and Wealth, Gotha Gallery; Summer and Winter (1614), Berlin Museum; Market Scene, Christiania Gallery; Peasant having Tooth extracted, Hermannstadt Museum; Satyrical Scenes (2), Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck.—Archief voor ned. Kunstgesch., ii. 108; iii. 258, 272, 275; iv. 59; Immerzeel, iii. 165; Kramm, vi. 1696; vii. 152; Kugler (Crowe), i. 245; Kunstkronijk (1867), 82, 83, 85; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 207.

VENNEMAN, CHARLES FERDINAND, born in Ghent, Jan. 6, 1803, died in 1875. Genre, landscape, and animal painter, pupil of Ghent Academy, where he won several prizes, and in Antwerp of Braekeleer; imitated the old Dutch masters. Medal, Antwerp, 1845. Works: Chicken Market, Interior with Figures (1837); Musical Party (1839); Peasants after the Chase (1842), Afternoon Nap (1844), Toper (1846), Königsberg Museum; Dutch Peasant Scene (1847), New Pinakothek, Munich; Card Players, Jolly Peasant, Stettin Museum; Card Players (1850), Ghent Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 165.

VENUS, ancient pictures. See Apelles, Artemidorus, Dorotheus, Nearchus.

VENUS, Giovanni Bellini, Vienna Museum; wood; H. 2 ft. 2 in. × 2 ft. 4 in.; signed, dated 1515. Figure seen to knees, seated on a cushion covered with a Turkish carpet. Engraved by J. A. von Prenner; J. Popels.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 193; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 419.

By William Page, W. Bullard, Boston; canvas, life-size. Full-length, standing in a shell which is drawn over the sea by doves. Painted in 1859.

Venus and Adonis, Guercino, Dresden Gallery.

By Palma Vecchio, Dresden Museum; canvas, H. 4 ft. × 6 ft. 6 in. Venus, nude, lying in a landscape. Bought in 1772 for £300.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 475.