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 Works: The Christening, Dream of the Arabian Nights, William H. Vanderbilt, New York; Armourer's Shop, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib.; Spanish Scene, August Belmont, ib.; Bull Fighters, J. H. Stebbins, ib.; Rare Vase, Cornelius Vanderbilt, ib.; Turkish Shoe-Shop, J. P. Morgan, ib.; Devotional Scene, D. O. Mills, ib.; Armourer's Shop, R. L. Cutting, ib.; Poultry Market in Tangier, Cairo Slipper Merchant (1872), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Marriage of Doge Foscari (1885).

Village Politicians, Sir David Wilkie, Earl of Mansfield.

VILLEGAS MARMOLEJO, PEDRO DE, born in Seville in 1520, died there in 1597. Spanish school; supposed to have studied in Rome, as his pictures are reminiscent of Raphael and of the best traditions of the Roman school. Among his works, which are rare, are: Visitation, Seville Cathedral; St. Lazarus, Hospital of the Lazarists, near Seville; Annunciation, Madonna, S. Lorenzo, Seville.—Stirling, i. 319; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole.

VILLOLDO, JUAN DE, died after 1551. Spanish school; pupil of his uncle, Alonzo Perez de Villoldo, a scholar of Juan de Borgoña. Painted in 1547-48 a series of forty-five works on sacred subjects for the Carbajal Chapel in S. Andres, Madrid.—Stirling, i. 148.

VINCENT, FRANÇOIS ANDRÉ, born in Paris, Dec. 30, 1746, died there, Aug. 3, 1816. History painter, son of François Élie Vincent (1708-90, miniature painter); pupil of Vien. Won the grand prix in 1768, and studied three years in Rome. Member of Academy in 1782, professor in 1792; chevalier of Legion of Honour, and professor in the École polytechnique. Works: Belisarius asking Alms; Alcibiades and Socrates; St. Jerome (1777), Montpellier Museum; President Molé seized by Rioters (1779); Combat of Romans and Sabines interrupted by Sabine Women (1781), Angers Museum; Cœcinna Pœtus exhorted by his Wife Arria to kill himself (1785), Amiens Museum; Henri IV. meeting Sully wounded (1786), Zeuxis choosing Girls of Crotona for Models (1789), Louvre; William Tell upsetting the Boat conveying Gesler (1795), Toulouse Museum; Lesson in Field Labour, Bordeaux Museum; Portrait of Bishop de Jarente (1787), Orléans Museum; do. of the Painter Houël, Rouen Museum; David Victor over Goliath, Valenciennes Museum. His wife, Mme. Adélaïde Vincent (born, 1749, Labille des Vertus, married first M. Guyard, and died, 1803), was a portrait painter of repute.—Bellier, ii. 690; Ch. Blanc, École française; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Meyer, Gesch., 55, 78; Larousse.

VINCENT, ST., Fra Bartolommeo, Florence Academy; wood. Painted about 1515 for S. Marco, Florence.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 189; C. & C., Italy, iii. 468.

VINCENZO DA SAN GIMIGNANO, born in San Gimignano, April 10, 1492, died there after 1529. Roman school. Real name Tamagno, son of Bernardo; called by Vasari a disciple and friend of Raphael, whom he assisted in the Vatican about 1512.