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 Orléans Gallery; sold in 1793 for £500. Engraved by L. Deplaces.—Cab. Crozat, ii. Pl. 23; Waagen, Treasures, ii. 113, 498.

VERONESE'S WIFE, portrait, Paolo Veronese, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; canvas, oval, H. 2 ft. 5 in. × 1 ft. 11 in. Bust, full face; black dress, white embroidered veil, and pearl necklace. Half figure.—Cat. Pal. Pitti.

VERONICA, THE. See Ecce Homo, Murillo.

VERRIO, ANTONIO, born in Naples in 1634, died at Hampton Court, England, June 17, 1707. History painter; after painting for a while at Toulouse, France, where he executed an altarpiece for the Church of the Carmelites, he went to England in 1671, at the invitation of Charles II., who employed him in the decoration of Windsor Castle. He was paid nearly £7,000 for his work there, in which he was continued by James II. In the great hall of Christ's Hospital is a work by him ninety feet long, representing the governor with the officers and children returning thanks to that monarch for the hospital charter. At the time of the Revolution he refused to work for William III., but after employment at Chatsworth and at Burleigh he painted his well-known work, the great staircase at Hampton Court.—Redgrave.

VERROCCHIO, ANDREA DEL, born in Florence in 1435, died in Venice, June 25, 1488. Florentine school; real name Andrea da Michele di Francesco de' Cioni. Like Antonio Pollajuolo, he was a goldsmith, sculptor, and worker in bronze, as well as a painter. The only example of his pictorial work, the Baptism of Christ, in the Florence Academy, shows that he combined the peculiarities of Fra Filippo, of Andrea del Castagno, and of Domenico Veneziano. His modelling is conscientious, but his drapery is lifeless. Verrocchio was the master of Leonardo da Vinci and of Lorenzo di Credi.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 400; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., v. 139; ed. Mil., iii. 357; Burckhardt, 134, 351, 357; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 316.

VERSCHAEREN, JOANNES ANTONIUS, born in Antwerp, April 28, 1803, died there, May 30, 1863. History, portrait, and landscape painter, pupil of Herreyns; formed himself after old French and Italian masters in England, France, Germany, especially at Munich, and in Italy. Member of Antwerp Academy in 1837. Professor; Order of Leopold, 1847. Works: Rebekah and Eliezer (1836); Ruth and Boaz (1840); Descent from the Cross, St. Michael's, Louvain; Annunciation, Bois-le-Duc Cathedral; Portrait of Herreyns, Antwerp Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 181.

VERSCHURINGH, HENDRIK, born at Gorinchem in 1627, drowned near Dordrecht, April 26, 1690. Dutch school; battle and genre painter, pupil of Dirk Govertsz and of Jan Both in Utrecht; continued his studies in Italy, and after his return to Holland in 1662 frequented armies and camps, where he sketched from life and painted a number of skirmishes, camps, guard-houses, etc., with great truth and felicitous invention. Works: Shoeing a Horse (1667), Rotterdam Museum; Cavalry Skirmish, Bamberg Gallery; Riding School (1679), Travellers attacked by Robbers, Distribution of Booty, Brunswick Gallery; Scene by Sutlers' Tents (1674), Berlin Museum; Detachment of Army Starting (1670), Christ conducted to Golgotha, Dresden Gallery; Halt of Travellers, Copenhagen Gallery; Skirmish between Troopers, Christiania Gallery; Battle-Piece, Hermannstadt Museum; Piazza Aracoeli in Rome, Leipsic Museum; Dutch Coast View, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Warrior and Peasant busy with Horses, Oldenburg Gallery; Ships at Anchor near a