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 Priest burning State Papers, C. P. Huntington, ib.; Captain's Letter, R. L. Cutting, ib.; Missionary's Story (1883), Morgan sale, ib., 1886, $25,500; The Arrival (1886), W. Schauss, ib.; Palm Sunday (1873), Morgan sale, 1886, $2,000; Eyes and Ears, Morgan sale, 1886, $3,500; Toreadors before entering Arena, Gulliver and the Liliputians (1870), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Roll-Call after Pillage (1867), H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia; and many others.—Bellier, ii. 668; Meyer, Gesch., 602; Larousse.

VICENTINO, ANDREA. See Andrea Michieli.

VICES, WISDOM VICTORIOUS OVER, Andrea Mantegna, Louvre; canvas, H. 5 ft. 3 in. × 6 ft. 3 in. Minerva and other goddesses expel the Vices from a garden, and welcome the approach of Justice, Force, and Temperance from heaven. Painted after 1492; one of a series of pictures for the boudoir of Isabella, Marchioness of Mantua; carried off by the Germans at sack of Mantua in 1630; passed into France; for a time in palace of Duc de Richelieu at Richelieu.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 408; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Mündler, 137.

VICTOR (Fictor), JACOMO, Dutch school, 17th century, alive in 1672. Painted chiefly birds; as learned as Hondecoeter, and even more original. Probably connected with Jan Victors. Lived in Venice about 1663, and, as Jacob van Ruisdael often painted the backgrounds for his pictures, he must have been settled in Amsterdam about 1670. Works: Domestic Birds (2), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Dove-Cote (landscape by Jacob van Ruisdael), Domestic Birds in the Woods, Copenhagen Gallery; do. in a Park (landscape by Jacob van Ruisdael), Berlin Museum; Chickens and Dove, Dresden Gallery; A Barnyard (attributed to Hondecoeter), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Rooster and Doves, Schleissheim Gallery.—Kramm, vi. 1751; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 458; Burger, Musées, ii. 39, 315.

VICTORS (Victoor, Fictoor), JAN, Dutch school, born about 1620, died at Amsterdam after December, 1672. History, genre, portrait, and landscape painter, pupil of Rembrandt, probably about 1635-40; in his biblical scenes adhered closely to the manner of his master. Works: Tobias blessing his Son, Bridgewater Gallery, London; Isaac blessing Jacob, Girl at Casement (1640), Louvre; Village Wedding, Antwerp Museum; Joseph explaining the Dream, Pork Butcher (1648), Dentist (1654), Museum, Amsterdam; Market, Six Collection, ib.; Portrait of a Burgomaster (1661), Haarlem Museum; Prophetess Anna, Van der Schrieck Collection, Louvain; Lady's Portrait, Death of David (1642), Jacob and Laban, Boaz and Ruth, Copenhagen Gallery; Halt before Inn, University, Göttingen; Esther and Haman (1642), Capture of Samson, David anointed by Solomon (1653), Brunswick Gallery; Hannah and Samuel with Eli (1645), Berlin Museum; Finding of Moses, Finding of the Cup in Benjamin's Sack, Dresden Gallery; Boaz and Ruth, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Peasants in a flat Landscape, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Tobias mocked by his Wife, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Tobias recovering Sight (1651), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Cyrus and Astyages, Oldenburg Gallery; Continence of Scipio (1640), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Landscape with Peasant Cottage, Wiesbaden Gallery; Mother and Child, Historical Society, New York.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Burger, Musées, ii. 29, 179, 315; Immerzeel, iii. 191; Kramm, vi. 1752; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 379; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 270; Vosmaer, Rembrandt, sa vie, 101.

VIDAL, VINCENT, born at Carcassonne (Aude), Jan. 20, 1811. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Paul Delaroche. Paints both in oil and water-colour. Medals: 3d class, 1844; 2d class, 1849; L. of Honour, 1852. Works: Frasquita, Néedjmé, Noémi,