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 VERELST, SIMON, born at The Hague, died in London (?) about 1721. Dutch school; flower, fruit, and portrait painter; perhaps son of Pieter Verelst; mentioned as master of The Hague guild in 1666. Works: Female Portrait, Louvre; Flower-Piece, Cassel Gallery; do., Brunswick Gallery; Man in Armour (attributed), Dresden Gallery; Still-Life, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Flowers, Schleissheim Gallery; do., New York Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 171; Kramm, vi. 1707; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 441.

VERENDAEL (Veerendael), NICOLAAS VAN, born in Antwerp, baptized Feb. 19, 1640, died there, buried Aug. 11, 1691. Flemish school; still-life painter, son and pupil of Willem van Verendael; approached Seghers in careful detail and capital drawing, but is greatly his inferior in power and clearness of colour. Master of Antwerp guild in 1656. Works: Eucharist, Antwerp Museum; Flowers, etc., around Crucifix (1686), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Dead Game and Flowers (figures by Teniers), Monkeys at Table (1686), Bouquet, Dresden Gallery; Garland around Relief of Madonna (1670), Berlin Museum; Festoon (1662), Schwerin Gallery; Garland around Bust of Pomona, Fruits around Bust of Flora, Still-Life, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Four Bouquets around Madonna (1662), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Festoon around do., Naples Museum; Flower-Pieces in Museums at Aix-la-Chapelle, Cologne, Innsbruck; Gallery at Carlsruhe (2); Uffizi, Florence.—Kramm, vi. 1709; Michiels, ix. 210; Rooses (Reber), 433; Van den Branden, 1141.

VERESCHAGIN, BASIL, born at Tcherepovets, government of Novgorod, Russia, Oct. 14 (26), 1842. Battle and genre painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy, where he won a medal with his first picture; after a visit to Paris, the Pyrenees, and Germany, went to the Caucasus to study Oriental subjects, and in 1864 to Paris to study under Gérôme and at the École des Beaux Arts, spending his vacations in the Caucasus and on his paternal estates, where he studied the manners of Russian peasantry. In 1867-70 he accompanied General Kaufmann to Turkestan, and after a summer spent at Antwerp and Brussels, went to the East as far as China; in 1874-76 visited India, and on his return settled in Paris. Joined the Russian army during the Russo-Turkish War, was severely wounded, but after recovery reached Plevna in time to see the fortress stormed. After assisting as secretary in the peace negotiations he returned to Paris, whence he again visited India in 1882 and 1884. The realistic painter par excellence of the terrors of war, he paints his pictures in cycles, which he will not allow to be broken up. Divided into two main groups—those treating of scenery and genre, and those dealing with war scenes—his principal works are classified by himself in three sections, dealing with India, with Turkestan, and with the Russo-Turkish War. Works: Unexpected Attack; Opium Eaters; Before Victory; After Defeat; Defence of the Citadel; Looking at the Trophies; Assault on Plevna; After the Assault; Apotheosis of War; Forgotten; Wounded Returning; Our Prisoners; Victors; Vanquished; All Quiet at Shipka; Snow Trenches on the Shipka; Cycle from Campaign in Turkestan, do. (20) from Russo-Turkish War, Moscow Museum; Cycle (20) from History of India. A series of large paintings is in the Tretjakoff Collection at Moscow; Frescos in the Church of the Redeemer, ib. In 1885 he exhibited in Vienna 83 paintings, among which were: Suppression of Indian Revolt, Entry of Prince of Wales into Jeypoor, Pearl Mosque