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 *vre; Cupid Fighting, Cupid at Rest, Trianon Palace; Orithyia carried off by Boreas, Mercury with the Head of Argus, Palais de Compiègne; Jupiter and Antiope, Nantes Museum; Flight into Egypt, Niobe's Children pierced by the Arrows of Diana and Apollo, Orléans Museum; David and the High Priest, Rennes Museum; Last Supper, Caen Museum; Baptism of Christ, Mythological Subject, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Bellier, ii. 649; Ch. Blanc, École française; Jal, 1250; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Lejeune, Guide, i. 183; iii. 272.

VERDIER, MARCEL, born in Paris, May 20, 1817, died there, August, 1856. History and genre painter, pupil of Ingres and of the École des Beaux Arts. Medals: 3d class, 1837; 2d class, 1848. Works: Holy Family, First Criminal Thoughts (1837); Philip baptizing the Eunuch (1840); Penitent Magdalen, Death of Archimedes (1842); Women and a Secret, Neapolitan Woman (1847); See-Saw, Clairvoyante (1848); A Mother after the Revolution of 1848, Man between Two Ages and his Mistresses (1849); St. Lawrence, Flower Girl (1850); Artist's Discouragement, Conscripts Departing (1852); Scene of Modern Outlawry in Clamécy (1853), Arras Museum; Christ crowned with Thorns, Female Portrait, Montpellier Museum; Male Portrait, Nîmes Museum.—Bellier, ii. 649; Larousse.

VERDOEL, ADRIAAN, born at Overmans in 1620, died in 1681. Dutch school; animal painter; said to have been instructed by Bramer and Jacob de Witte, as well as by Rembrandt, whose manner he followed. Mentioned as member of the guild at Haarlem in 1649. His compositions are ingenious, his drawing is correct, and his colouring powerful. In the Schwerin Gallery are two pictures with Pigs in a Stable.—Havard, A. & A., iv. 88; Schlie, 649; Vosmaer, Rembrandt (ed. 1877), 232; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvii. 127.

VERDUSSEN, JAN PEETER, born probably at Antwerp, died at Avignon, March 31, 1763. Flemish school; battle painter of considerable renown, was director of the Art School at Marseilles until 1744, when he went to Turin, accompanied the King of Sardinia in his campaigns, and after visiting several other courts, returned to France and settled at Avignon. Works: Siege of Saint Guilhain in 1746, Versailles Museum; Charge of Cavalry (2), Marseilles Museum; Italian Landscape with Herd (copy after Berchem), Carlsruhe Gallery; Army Baggage attacked by the Enemy, Horse Fair, Schleissheim Gallery.—Bellier, ii. 650; Kramm, vi. 1707.

VERDUSSEN, PEETER, born at Antwerp, baptized Feb. 10, 1662, died there (?). Flemish school; landscape and animal painter, pupil of his father, Jacob Verdussen; master of the guild in 1697. Works: Landscape with Battle of Eeckeren, City Hall, Antwerp; Mountainous Landscape, Museum Plantijn, ib.; Meet of Huntsmen near Roman Ruins, Augsburg Gallery.—Van den Branden, 1080.

VERELST (van Elst), PIETER, born at Antwerp in 1614, died after 1668. Dutch school; genre and portrait painter, flourished about 1648-66 at The Hague, where he settled in 1642; was one of the founders of the new guild in 1656, and is mentioned in documents as late as 1668, when, full of debts, he fled from his creditors. Works: Farm Interior (1643), Copenhagen Gallery; Portrait of Old Lady (1648), Seamstress, Berlin Museum; Lady's Portrait, Carlsruhe Gallery; Card Players, Cassel Gallery; Old Man by Coal Fire, Man Reading, Dresden Gallery; Dutch Family (1665), Haarlem Museum; Peasants Carousing, do. Smoking, Male Portraits (2), Vienna Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 171; Kramm, vi. 1708; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 389.