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 Zwingli's Return from Berne (1865); Death of Gessler (1867).—Andresen, ii. 250; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 742; Nagler, xx. 495.

VOGEL VON VOGELSTEIN, KARL, born at Wildenfels, Saxony, June 26, 1788, died in Munich, March 4, 1868. History and portrait painter, son and pupil of Christian Lebrecht Vogel (1759-1816), and pupil of Dresden Academy; went in 1807 to Memel, Dorpert, and St. Petersburg, where he painted many portraits, and in 1813 to Italy, where he studied and copied after the old masters; in 1820 he became professor at the Dresden Academy, and in 1824 court painter; visited London in 1834, Rome again in 1840-42, and Venice in 1851-52; resigned his professorship in 1853, and soon after moved to Munich. Member of Berlin, Munich, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and Florence Academies; ennobled by the King of Saxony in 1831; Order of Albrecht, 1853. Works: Temptation of Christ; Annunciation; Baptism of Christ; Susanna justified by Daniel; Christ Crucified (1821), Naumburg Cathedral; St. Joseph of Calazans with the School Children; Raising of Lazarus; Madonna, Portrait of the Landscape Painter Miville (1811), Basle Museum; Dante in his Relation to the Divine Comedy (1844), Palazzo Crocetta, Florence; Christian Martyr Perpetua in Prison; Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta; Francesca at the Bath (1845-46); Scenes from Goethe's Faust (1852); replica, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Portraits of Pope Pius VII. (1817), Kings Frederic August (1823) and John (1832) of Saxony, Dresden Gallery; Ludwig Tieck, National Gallery, Berlin; do. (1834), and King Frederic August II., Leipsic Museum; Portrait of himself, Uffizi, Florence; Thorwaldsen; Lucien Bonaparte. In fresco: Ten Scenes in Life of the Virgin (1826-29), Royal Chapel, Pillnitz.—Andresen, ii. 101; Illustr. Zeitg. (1868), i. 267; Jordan (1885), ii. 232; Nagler, xx. 481.

VOILLEMOT, ANDRÉ CHARLES, born in Paris, Dec. 13, 1822. Genre painter, pupil of Drölling and at the École des Beaux Arts. His pictures, mostly ideal subjects, produce a charming effect at a distance, but on a close approach appear heavy in drawing and colouring. Medal, 1870; L. of Honour, 1870. Works: Zephyr, Cupid, Dream (1859); Gallant Festival, Cupid, Banquet of Stone (1863); Youth (1864); The Nest (1868); Velleda (1869); Grasshopper and Ant (1870); Springtime (1873); Woman with Roses (1874); Twilight (1876); Innocence in Danger (1878); Revery (1880); Recalling the Lovers (1883); Fantaisie espagnole (1884).—Larousse.

VOIS, ARIE (Adriaan) DE, born in Leyden in 1641, died there in 1698 (?). Dutch school; history, portrait, genre, and landscape painter, pupil of Nicolas Knupfer in Utrecht and of Abraham van den Tempel at Leyden; further developed under influence of Gerard Dou and Frans van Mieris. He painted, with minute finish, chiefly half-length nude figures, in landscapes after the manner of Poelenburg, animated in conception and clear and warm in colouring. A rich marriage led him into idleness for thirteen years, until need compelled him to devote himself again to art. The pictures of his last period pass for his best. Works: Boy with Book, Bridgewater Gallery, London; Woman cutting a Lemon, Two Male Portraits, Louvre; Jolly Toper, Brussels Museum; Old Lady, Antwerp Museum; Huntsman, Hague Museum; Jolly Fish-Seller, Violinist, A Lady, Peasant Smoking, Amsterdam Museum; Drinker, Cassel Gallery; Storm at Sea, Brunswick Gallery; Old Man's Head, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Venus and Adonis (1678), Berlin Museum; Lute Player, Gotha Museum; Drinker, Smoker, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Man looking into a Mum-Glass, Shepherdess, Landscape with Nude Figures (1666), Dresden Gallery; Peasants before their Cottage, Schwerin Gallery.—Ch. Blanc, École hollan