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 VOLLMERING, JOSEPH, born at Anholt, Westphalia, Aug. 27, 1810. Landscape painter, pupil of the Amsterdam Academy in 1826-30; then travelled several years in Germany, studying after nature, especially in the valley of the Rhine; from 1835 to 1844 studied with Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, with whom he made many sketching trips in the Rhine, Moselle, and Neckar Valleys. Removed to America in 1847; elected an A.N.A. in 1852. Studio in New York. Works: Indian Falls—near Cold Spring, N. Y. (1848), painted for G. Kemble; View on the Hudson, J. J. Astor, New York; Holy Shrine at Sunset (1852), George I. Seney, ib.; Study of Trees (1865), L. M. Rutherford, ib.; Sunset Landscape (1869), Adirondack Mountains (1869), F. H. Delano, ib.; The Hudson from Garrison's, C. de Rham, ib.; The Hudson from Hastings, F. W. Lasak, ib.; New York from Weehawken Heights (1872), A. Havemeyer, ib.

VOLLON, ANTOINE, born in Lyons, April 20, 1833. Genre, landscape, and flower painter, pupil of Ribot. Colouring harmonious; in other respects variable. Medals: 1865, 1868, 1869; 1st class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1870; Officer, 1878. Works: Art and Gluttony (1864); Kitchen Interior (1864), Nantes Museum; Return from Market (1866); Monkey at the Accordeon (1866), Lyons Museum; Grapes in the South, Sea Fish (1867); Old Fisherman, Curiosities (1868), Luxembourg; After the Ball (1869); Corner of my Studio; Sea Fish (1870), Luxembourg; Luncheon (1871); New Year's Day (1872); The Kettle (1872), Lyons Museum; Corner of the Market (1874); The Pig, Armure Fish (1875); Woman of the Pollet in Dieppe (1876); Helmet of Henri II., Spaniard (1878); Pumpkins (1880); Birds of the South, Pot on the Fire (1883); Cruche de Marseille (1885); Pottery, View of Tréport (1886); Still Life, Henry T. Chapman, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y.—Claretie, Peintres (1874), 196; Meyer, Gesch., 630; Larousse.

VOLLWEIDER, AUGUST, born at Eichstetten, Baden, in 1835. Landscape painter, pupil in Carlsruhe of Schirmer; visited Munich and the Bavarian Highlands in 1858, Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Belgium in 1861, the Swiss Alps and Black Forest in 1865, and Paris in 1867; instructor at the Carlsruhe Art School since 1855, and inspector since 1861; resigned in 1874 and settled at Berne. Works: Heidelberg Castle; Spring under Oak Trees (1865), Oak Wood with Deer, Carlsruhe Gallery; Storm Landscape (1866); German Oaks (1867); The Wetterhorn, Würzburg Art Union; Rosenlaui Glacier; Susten Pass in Switzerland; Ancient Germans in Oak Wood.—Müller, 540.

VOLMAR, GEORG, born at Mengen, Suabia, in 1770, died at Berne, April 27, 1831. Landscape painter, self-taught by study of nature; painted especially Swiss scenery and costume pictures; visited Italy in 1807, and became professor at the Art School in Berne. Works: Waterfall near Meiringen, Berne Museum; Mother and Child under a Tree near Battlefield, Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen. His son Joseph (born in 1795, died in Berne in 1865), pupil of Horace Vernet, also became professor at Berne. By him: Boar Hunt, Leonore (after Bürger's ballad, 1829), Berne Museum. By another son, Rudolf (died in Berne, 1844), a View of the Giessbach, ib.

VOLTERRA, DANIELE DA, born in Volterra in 1509, died in Rome, April 4, 1566. Florentine school. Real name Daniele Ricciarelli; pupil of Il Sodoma, afterwards of Baldassare Peruzzi. When still young he went to Rome, where, after working as assistant to Perino del Vaga, he became the pupil of Michelangelo. His chief works are in the Cappella Orsini in Trinità de' Monti, Rome, where he spent seven years in painting a series of frescos representing the history of the Cross. The prin