VOYAGE OF LIFE Charity, Portrait of Louis XIII , Allegory of Riches, Faith, Eloquence, Susanna and the Elders, Louvre ; Dead Christ, Presen- tation of the Virgin, Dijon Museum ; St. Stephen in Ecstasy, Douai Museum ; Temp- tation of St. Anthony, Repose in Egypt, Grenoble Museum ; Entombment, Havre Mu- seum ; Christ on the Cross, Lyons Muse- um ; Madonna, Marseilles Museum ; Wisdom, Montpellier Museum ; Nymph and Cupid, Cupids playing with the Arms of -ZEneas, Nancy Museum ; Apotheosis of St. Eus- tache (ceiling), Peace, Ave Maria, Nantes Museum ; St. Paul Baptizing, Nimes Mu- seum ; Nymph with Grapes watched by Youth, Orleans Museum ; Madonna with St. John, Renues Museum ; Apotheosis of St. Louis, Rouen Museum ; Christ sur- rounded by Angels, Strasburg Museum ; Portrait of a Lady as Cleopatra, Troyes Museum ; Finding of the Cross, The Brazen Serpent, Toulouse Museum ; St. Stephen in Prayer, Valenciennes Museum ; St. Charles Borromeo interceding for the Plague-strick- en at Milan, Brussels Museum ; Allegory on Glory of France, Madonna kneeling by a Column, Carlsruhe Gallery ; Apotheosis of St. Louis, Dresden Museum ; Holy Family, Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, Hermannstadt Museum ; Two Portraits of Princesses, Ma- drid Museum ; Madonna in a Landscape, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Madonna (2), Venus and Adonis, Death of Lucretia, Her- mitage, St. Petersburg ; Madonna, Scliwe- rin Gallery ; Annunciation, Uffizi, Florence ; Allegory on Painting, Turin Gallery. Bel- lier, ii. 702 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole fran9aise. VOYAGE OF LIFE, Thomas Cole, Henry B. Plant, New York ; allegorical series of four pictures. 1. The child, with its guar- dian angel, in a boat heaped with flowers, is floating down the stream ; 2. The youth, with hope in his aspect, is taking command of the helm ; 3. The mature man, his boat hurried onward by the rapids of the river ; 4. The aged navigator who is again joined by his guardian angel as he is about enter- ing the ocean of eternity. Painted in 1841 for Samuel Ward ; purchased after his death by the American Art Union, and drawn as a prize in 1848 by J. F. Bredt, Bingham- ton, of whom bought by Rev. Gorham D. Abbott ; passed next to John Taylor John- ston and sold at his sale (1876) for $3,100. Engraved by James Smillie. Replica, painted in 1843, owned in the West. VRANCX, SEBASTIAAN, born in Ant- werp, baptized Jan. 22, 1573, died there, May 19, 1G47. Flemish school ; history, hunt, and battle painter, pupil of Adam van Noort, then went to Italy, and probably re- turned about 1600, when he became master of the guild at Antwerp ; was dean in 1612. He followed in the path of Jan Brueghel and Hendrik van Balen, enliven- ing his pictures with a multitude of well- grouped figures, brilliant in colouring, but somewhat stiff in drawing. Works : Camp of Ambrosius Spinola's Army near Ostend, Charge of Cavalry, Surprisal of a Convoy, Woodland with Vehicles and Travellers (landscape in last two by Jan Brueghel), Madrid Museum ; Siege of Wachtendonk by the Spaniards, Amsterdam Museum ; Pillage, Promenade (2), Madonna, Rotter- dam Museum ; Attack of Robbers, Caval- ry Skirmish, Brunswick Museum ; Skirmish about Travelling Coach (? attributed to Peeter Snayers), Darmstadt Museum ; Mil- itary Camp on Seashore, Cavalry Skirmish, three others (attributed), Gotha Museum ; Pilgrims encamped near a Town (1622), Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Pharaoh perishing in the Red Sea, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Surprisal of Travellers, Interior of Jesuit Church at Antwerp, Vienna Museum. Kramm, H. 509 ; vi. 1801 ; Michiels, vii. 268 ; Riegel, Beitriige, ii. 48 ; Rooses (Reber), 153 ; Van den Branden, 470. VRIENDT, ALBERT and JULIAN DE; 396
