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 great deal for the Emperor, the King of Spain, and the Duke of Aerschot, his particular patron. Master of the guild in 1620. Van Dyck painted his portrait. Works: Cats Fighting, Stags and Dogs, Bull pursued by Dogs, and 13 others, Madrid Museum; Death of the Roe Buck, Louvre; Stag Hunt, Brussels Museum; Boar Hunt (figures by Van Thulden), Suermondt Museum, Aix-la-Chapelle; do., and Bear Hunt, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Dog barking at Swans, Cassel Gallery; Fight between Owls and Martens, do. between Birds, Still-Life (2), Hermannstadt Museum; Bear Hunt, The Animals in the Garden of Eden, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Two Dogs Quarrelling (3), Roe pursued by Dogs, Schleissheim Gallery; Horse pursued by Dogs, Horse torn by Wolves, Fight between Bears and Dogs, Stag Hunt, Fight between Leopard and Dogs, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Kramm, vi. 1798; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 335; Michiels, ix. 229; Rooses (Reber), 260; Van den Branden, 679.

VOS, SIMON DE, born in Antwerp, Oct. 28, 1603, died there, Oct. 15, 1676. Flemish school; history, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Cornelis de Vos (1615) and of Rubens; received as master into the guild in 1620, when only seventeen years of age. Van Dyck painted his portrait. Works: Portrait of Young Man, Grenoble Museum; Resurrection, Lille Museum; do., Nantes Museum; Portrait of the Painter, Antwerp Museum; Male Portraits (2, 1640, 1645), Rotterdam Museum; Punishment of Cupid, Berlin Museum; Abigail and David, Gotha Museum; Stag Hunt, Schleissheim Gallery; Spring, Autumn, and Winter (1635); Tavern Scene (1640), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Kramm, vi. 1799; Michiels, viii. 301; Rooses (Reber), 327; Van den Branden, 899.

VOUET, SIMON, born in Paris, Jan. 9, 1590, died there, June 30, 1649. French school; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Laurent Vouet, a mediocre painter; then studied nature and the great masters. Even in his fourteenth year he showed such skill that he was called to England to paint the portrait of a refugee,—a lady of high rank. Charles I. in vain endeavoured to retain him, and he returned to France to follow (1611) the French Ambassador Baron de Sancy to Constantinople, where he painted Sultan Achmet I. from memory. In 1612 he went to Venice, where he copied Titian and Veronese, and in Rome (1613), Caravaggio and Guido Reni. Called to Genoa by the Dorias, he remained there two years before returning to Rome, where he became director of the Accademia di S. Luca. In 1627 Louis XIII. recalled him to France, whither several of his pupils accompanied him. As first painter to the king, he executed many decorative works for the Louvre, the Luxembourg, and the Palais Royal, for numerous churches and palaces in Paris, and painted portraits of the King and many of the nobles of his court. Works: Presentation of Christ in Temple, Madonna, Christ on the Cross, Entombment, Roman