deniic, l)il)lical, legal, and medical. Subsequently the departments of plianuacy, dentistry, and en- gineerinj; were added. The ftniversity has sub- sequently received numerous K'^ts from the members of the Vanderl)ilt family amount- ing to about $()00,000 in all, Ijesides a contribu- tion of $28,000 by the citizens of Nashville for the purchase of the grounds. A summer school is maintained, though not as a regular iiart of the university organization. Correspondenee work was instituted in lf)02 in the biblical deiiartment, the first year's enrollment reaching nearly 200. The university confers the Baelielor's degree in arts, engineering, science, divinity, and law; the Master's in arts, science, and phar- macy; the Doctor's in philosophy, science, and medical and dental surgery, and the degrees of Civil, Mechanical, and Mining Engineer. The whole endowment in 1903 was $1,.300,000, when the value of the college propert.y was .$2,200,000; the value of grounds and buildings, .$800,000; and the income. ,$12.5.000. During the year the uni- versity had an attendance of G9.5 students, a fac- ulty of 100 members, and a library of 30,000 volumes.
VAN'DERKEMP, Francis Adrian (17.52-
1S29) . An immigrant from Holland to the State
of New York toward the close of the eighteenth
century; a man of remarkable learning and of
tlie highest character, who was prevented by un-
toward circumstances from attaining the celeb-
rity which he richly deserved. Born in a family
of distinction at Kempen, Holland, and educated
in the University of Groningen, and among the
Baptists of Amsterdam, he became a minister in
Leyden (1777), and there remained for several
years. In politics and in religion he was liberal,
and incurred the displeasure of the Government.
He enjoyed the friendship of Baron van der Ca-
])ellen of Pol — a firm friend of the American col-
onies — and joined the armed forces of the Patriot
Party, which sought political reform in oppo-
sition to the Orange Party. Taken prisoner, he was
in confinement for several months. Disheartened
upon his release in December, 1787, he informed
his friend John Adams, then United States Min-
ister in London, of his intention to emigrate to
America, and received from him several intro-
ductory letters. Lafayette gave him others.
Early in 1788 he arrived in New York. For six
years his home was Esopus, after which he re-
moved to the neighborhood of Lake Oneida, where
he was engaged in agriculture during the re-
mainder of his life. An appointment as a jus-
tice of the peace gave him the title of jttdge.
With many of the foremost men of the country
he maintained the friendliest relations, and he
was chosen a member of learned societies and ad-
mitted to the honorary degree of LL.D. by Har-
vard College (1820). In addition to many
printed papers he left an autobiography, which
has furnished the material for a memoir written
in 1903 by Mrs. Helen Lincklaen Fairchild. Many
of his manuscripts are preserved by the Pennsyl-
vania and ButTalo Historical Societies and by
Columbia University.
VAN'DERLYN, John (1775-1852). An
American portrait and historical painter, born
near Kingston, N. Y. He was a protege of Aaron
Burr, who supported him as a pupil of Gilbert
Stuart, in Philadelphia, and sent him to Paris,
where he studied for five years under Vincent and
other masters. On his return to America in
1801 he lived in the house of Burr, who was
then Vice-President, at Washington, where he
painted the well-known profile likenesses of Burr
and his daughter. In 1803 he returned to Eu-
rope, studying for two years in Itonie. For his
"Marius Among the Ruins of Carthage," now in
possession of the heirs of Bisho]) Ki]i, of Cali-
fornia, a gold medal was awarded him at Paris
in 1808. In 1812 he linished bis siK-ond chief
work, "Ariadne of Na.xos" ( Bhihuhdjihia) . He
painted a number of portraits of public men in
Paris, and in America after his return to the
United States in 1815. For twelve years his
panoramas of Paris, Athens, Me.vieo, and Ver-
sailles and other paintings were exhibited in the
New York Rotunda, now the rear of the present
city hall; but the financial returns were small
and the remainder of his life was a struggle for
existence. He died in destitution at Kingston.
Only the design of his "Landing of Columbus,"
one of the large paintings in the rotunda of the
Capitol in Washington, well known from its use
upon the United States five-dollar note, is by
Vanderlyn, the execution having been intrusted
to a French painter.
Vanderlyn's paintings show superior draughts- manship and skill in composition, but are defi- cient in color. His portraits are good in charac- terization. The best known are those of Washing- ton in the Capitol at Washington; President Tay- lor, in the Corcoran Gallery, ib. ; Aaron Burr and R. R. Livingston, in the library of the New York Historical Society ; and one of himself in the Metropolitan Art Museum.
VAN DER MEER van Delft. See Vermeer.
VAN DER MEER (VERMEER) van
Haarlem, viin der mar (var'mar), Jan (1G28-
91). A Dutch landscape painter, born in Haar-
lem. He was a pupil of De Wet (1638) and
became a member of the guild in 1054. His pic-
tures include: "View of Haarlem" (Berlin);
"View of the Dunes" ( Dresden ) ; "A Wood Road"
(Munich), and other examples in Paris. Rotter-
dam, and Vienna. They are rare, as are those of
his son and pupil, Jan, the Younger ( 1G5G-1705) ,
born in Haarlem. He also studied under Berg-
hem and became especially well known as a
marine painter. He also left six masterly etch-
ings.
VAN DER STUCKEN, stSo'kcn, Frank (1858 — ). An American composer and musical conductor, born in Frederickslnirg, Texas. When but six years old he was taken by his parents to Antwerp, and was thus enabled to study with Benoit. Before he was twenty he had produced several successful compositions, among them being a ballet, which was' produced at the Royal Theatre, and a Gloria and Te Dciim. In 1876 he went to Leipzig, where he spent two years in study with Reinecke. Grieg, and Langer, after which he traveled through Europe for two years. In 1881 and 1882 he served at the Breslau City Theatre as kapellmeister, wrote incidental music to Shakespeare's Tempest, and formed a valuable friendship with Grieg and Liszt. His
first important appointment in America was as musical director of the Arion Club of New York, succeeding L. Damrosch. In 1895 he became director of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music,
