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 *angelo, Naples Museum; Nativity, Vienna Museum; Holy Family (1563), Leipsic Museum.—Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 386; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 140.

VERA, Don ALEJO, born at Viñuela, Malaga; contemporary. Spanish school; history and genre painter, pupil of Frederico de Madrazo; studied afterwards in Rome; contributed much to raising art in Spain to a higher standard. Medals: 1862, 1871; Philadelphia, 1876. Works: Burial of St. Lawrence in Catacombs of Rome (1862); Communion of Early Christians in the Catacombs; Pompeiian Lady at Toilet (1871); Old Roman Woman with Parrot; Jewelry Store at Pompeii; Heroism of Numantines (1881).

VERBEECK, FRANS, born at Antwerp, baptized Feb. 21, 1686, died there, May 28, 1755. Flemish school; genre and battle painter, pupil of Jan Baptist de Bie; master of the guild in 1710, and its dean in 1724, 1730, 1737, and 1746. He was also one of the directors of the Antwerp Academy. His only still known work is a Visit of the Abbot of St. Michael to the Fencers' Guild (1713), Antwerp Museum.—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers, 526; Van den Branden, 1193.

VERBEECK (Verbeecq), PIETER (CORNELISZ), born probably at Haarlem, flourished about 1638-50. Dutch school; animal and battle painter; received as master into the guild at Alkmaar in 1635, and at The Hague in 1645. Works: Skirmish of Oriental Horsemen (1638), Berlin Museum; Man and Woman on Horseback, Groom holding Horse, Halt before Tavern (2), Cassel Gallery; Horse and Rider at Cistern (1642), Moltke Collection, Copenhagen; Saddled Horse fastened to a Hedge, Old Pinakothek, Munich.—Immerzeel, iii. 167; Kramm, vi. 1701.

VERBOECKHOVEN, EUGÉNE JOSEPH, born at Warneton, West Flanders, June 9, 1799, died in Brussels, Jan. 19, 1881. Animal painter, son and pupil of the sculptor Barthélémi Verboeckhoven; visited England in 1826, Germany in 1828, France and Italy in 1841, and settled in Brussels. Member of Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Amsterdam, and St. Petersburg Academies. L. of Honour; Commander of Orders of Leopold and Francis Joseph; Bavarian Order of Michael; Portuguese Order of Christ; Order of Iron Cross (1830). Works: Arabian Stallion (1824); Horses attacked by Wolves (1836), Landscapes with Cattle (2, 1824, 1825), Museum, Amsterdam; Sheep and Lamb, Sheep in a Grove, Landscape with Resting Cattle, Museum Fodor, ib.; Wounded Lion; Horses in Roman Campagna; Return from Market; Market at Ghent; Shepherd near Tivoli (1846), Bad Neighbours (1853), Herd driven to Pasture (1856), National Gallery, Berlin; Bull in a Landscape (1829), Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Cows in Pasture, Ravené Gallery, ib.; Sheep Stable, Carlsruhe Gallery; do. (1841), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Woodland Scene with Cattle (1836), Christiania Gallery; Sheep in Pasture (1838), Sheep Resting, Donkeys and Sheep (1839), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Man with Calf, Königsberg Museum; White Horse by Cottage (1837), Peasant Asleep with Horse watched by Dog (1839), Sheep Pictures (4, 1838, 1840, 1846, 1859), Cow and Goat in Stable (1841), Leipsic Museum; Sheep Stable (1844), New Pinakothek, Munich; Landscape with Animals (1846), Ghent Museum; Sheep surprised by Storm, Souvenir of Roman Campagna, Brussels Museum; Shepherdess in the Campine (1855); Sheep in Downs of Ostend (1878); Dead Sheep in Scottish Landscape, Scottish Ponies, Bouquet (1880); Frightened Bull, J. J. Astor, New York; Sheep—Interior, H.