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 Medals: Brussels, Paris (1864, 1878), Vienna; Order of Leopold, 1871; L. of Honour, 1881. Works: Banks of the Scheldt; Horses at Pasture; View in the Ardennes; Zealand Team, Brussels Museum; St. Sebastian's Guild (1881); Ox and Bull Fighting (1884).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 998.

VERWILT, FRANÇOIS, born at Rotterdam in 1598, died there in 1690 or 1691. Dutch school; landscape, figure, and portrait painter, pupil of Cornelis Dubois, then of Poelenburg, whose style he imitated. His works are extremely rare. Works: Son of Admiral van Nes (1669), Amsterdam Museum; Magdalen Penitent, Cassel Gallery; Repose in Egypt, Czernin Gallery, Vienna.—Immerzeel, iii. 190; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 508.

VESALIUS, ANDREA, portrait, Titian, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; canvas, H. 4 ft. 3 in. × 3 ft. 11 in. The eminent anatomist, author of "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" (Basle, 1543), when an old man. Other portraits of him differ from this in features. Engraved by T. Ver Cruys; Paradisi.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 418; Gal. du Pal. Pitti, iii. Pl. 122.

VESTAL TUCCIA, Hector Leroux, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; canvas, H. 4 ft. 6 in. × 8 ft. 2 in. Tuccia, a vestal charged with want of chastity, stands on the banks of the Tiber, raising above her head with both hands a sieve, praying to Vesta to allow her to bear it filled with water to her temple in proof of her innocence. Salon, 1874; Paris Exhibition, 1878.—Art Treasures of America, i. 6; Corcoran Gal. Cat.

VESTALS, SCHOOL OF, Hector Leroux, J. J. Astor, New York; canvas, H. 5 ft. × 10 ft. Scene: Interior of Temple of Vesta, Rome; in foreground, a bronze tripod with the never-dying fire, upon which the chief priestess pours a libation while a vestal, at her left, reads from a scroll; in front, two priestesses of superior dignity sit upon rich chairs with footstools, and the novices stand around in a semicircle. Salon, 1880. Photogravure in Art Treasures of America, ii. 5.

VESTIER, ANTOINE, born at Avallon (Yonne), April 28, 1740, died in Paris, Dec. 24, 1824. Portrait painter, pupil of Pierre; received into the Academy in 1786; after travelling for a long time in Holland and England, settled in Paris. Works: Portrait of Jean Baptiste Pierre (1786), École des Beaux Arts, Paris; Artist's Wife (1787), Female Portraits (2), Louvre, ib.—Bellier, ii. 665; Jal, 1263.

VETSAJO, IL. See Bembo, Gian Francesco.

VETTER, HÉGÉSIPPE JEAN, born in Paris, Sept. 21, 1820. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Steuben. Medals: 3d class, 1843, 1867; 2d class, 1847, 1848, 1855; L. of Honour, 1855. Works: Bayard as a Child (1844); Molière with the Barber of Pezenas (1847); Alchemist (1848), Angers Museum; Studying by Lamplight (1850); Quarter of an Hour with Rabelais, Master of Arms (1855); Smoker, Woman Reading, The Story (1857); Woman Dressing, Going out Walking (1859); Bernard Palissy, The Declaration (1861); Molière and Louis XIV. (1864), Luxembourg Museum; Mascarille presenting Jodelet to Cathos and Madelon (1865), Orléans Museum; Mignon playing with a Cup and Ball (1866); In the Tavern (1867); Mazarin (1872), Luxembourg Museum; Flight into Egypt (1874); An Exquisite (1875); The Letter (1878); St. John the Baptist, Saint Jacques du Haut-pas, Paris; Two Angels, Saint Louis d'Antin.—Bellier, ii. 665; Meyer, Gesch., 662; Larousse.

VEYRASSAT, JULES JACQUES, born in Paris in 1825. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Lefman. Paints both in oil and water-colour. Medals: 2d class, 1872; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Drinking Cider, Harvesters (1850); View at M. Hereau's (1852); Manure Carts (1853); Peasants going to Fields (1855); Peasants dining in Fields, Gleaners, Meal in Shadow of Mill (1857); Tow-Horses on the Seine (1859), Pau Museum; Tow-Horses in the Morning, Harvest near Morlair, Harvest near Paris,