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 *velle biog. gén., xlvi. 9; Pietsch, H. V. Album (Berlin, 1864); La Presse, Feb. 5, 1863; Rees, H. V. (London, 1880); Revue artistique et littéraire, Feb. 1, 1863, seq.; Rev. des Deux Mondes (1863), xliv. 76; Rev. du Nord de la France, iv. 312; Silvestre, Lettres intimes de H. V. (Paris, 1856); Larousse; Meyer, Gesch., 188; Fine Arts Quarterly, ii. 126; É. de Mirecourt, Horace Vernet (Paris, 1858).

VERNET-LECOMTE, ÉMILE, born in Paris in 1821. Genre painter, pupil of Horace Vernet and Léon Cogniet. Medals: 3d class, 1846, 1863; L. of Honour, 1864. Works: Appeal to Neptune, Lille Museum; Agamemnon's Body-Guard; Ajax; Job and his Friends; Enduring and Passing Love; Fellah Girl; Moorish Girl opening a Pomegranate; Happy Future, Idyl of Mount Libanus (1880).—Bellier, i. 958.

VERNIER, ÉMILE LOUIS, born at Lons-le-Saulnier (Jura). Landscape painter and lithographer, pupil of Collette. Paints in the style of Corot. Medals: 1869, 1870. Works: View near Besançon, River Ain (1864); Park of Champigny (1865); Street in Champigny, View of Champigny (1866); River Doubs, Road in the Woods (1867); Village of Avane, River Loire (1868); View at Cléron, River Loué (1869); Farm at Vaucotte, Beach near Étretat (1870); Boat No. 774 of Yport, Beach of Yport (1872); Return to Yport, Low Tide (1873); The Martigues, Dry Dock in Marseilles, Cancale Boats (1874); Return of the Bas-de-l'Eau (1875); Tower of the Weeping Women, Country People of Wiessant (1876); Boats drying their Sails (1877); Before the Squall, Farmyard at Attainville (1878); Women gathering Sea-Weed at Yport, The Seine at Bercy in Winter (1879); Selling Shells (1880); Gathering Sea-Weed at Concarneau, The Downs of Roscoff (1881); Shrimp Fishers of Grand Champ, Launch of a Sloop (1882); Breton Team, The Thames at London (1883); Low Tide at Concarneau, The Thames at London (1884); Spring-Tide in Cornwall, Morning, ib. (1885); Embarking of Fishermen, Return of Vessels in Stormy Weather (1886).—Larousse; L'Art (1879), xvi. 310; Bellier, ii. 661.

VERONESE, ALESSANDRO. See Turchi, Alessandro.

VERONESE, BONIFAZIO. See Bonifazio, Veronese.

VERONESE, PAOLO, born in Verona in 1528, died in Venice, April 19, 1588. Venetian school; real name Paolo Caliari or Cagliari, son of Gabriele Caliari, a sculptor; pupil of his uncle Antonio Badile, according to Ridolfi, and of Giovanni Caroto, according to Vasari. After painting in Verona and in Mantua he established himself in Venice, where he executed most of his works. In 1563 he visited Rome in the suite of the Venetian ambassador, but the study of the pictures of the great masters there did not affect his style. On his return to Venice he gained great reputation by many pictures and frescos painted in the Palazzo Ducale and in churches, especially in S. Sebastiano. As Titian was then very old, Veronese shared with Tintoretto the most important commissions. He received orders from the Emperor Rudolph II., the Duke of Savoy, and the Duke of Modena, and was invited by Philip II. to decorate the Escorial; but preferring to remain in Venice, he sent Federico Zuccaro to Spain in his stead. With all his skill, splendid use of colour, and facile command of the resources of painting for decorative purposes, Veronese seems superficial when compared with Titian. He gives us the glitter, the pomp, the outward aspect of Venetian life, making it the medium for the representation of sacred as well as profane subjects; but while he thus fascinates the eye he does not, like Titian, move the feel