VAX NEST
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VAN NOSTRAND
comctli ill in its season." He dieil Sept. 14. 1864. See A Memorial for his Fumilif (1864). (\V. J. K. T.)
Van Nest, Peter, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in IJLilikhcui townsiiip, llinitinntlon Co., N..I., Aug. 5, 1759. In 1771 lie went to reside in Philailcl- pliia, I'a. Sliorily after liis settlement in lliat city lie was iiowerfully awakened to a sense ol sin ; it was not, however, until 17)^8 that Ire was led to see liimsell'as he really was. l?eiiig in Bristol, ICiiglaiid, he went to hear Thomas Warwick, a Wesleyan preacher, whose discourses were so pungent, and seemed so personal to him, that his conscience was proromully awakened. He at once joined the Methodist Church, and acipiired the friend- ship of John Wesley. Henry Moore, the biographer of Wesley, commissioned him as a local preacher in 1794. In 179G he returned to America, and was re- ceived on trial in the Philadelphia Conference the same year, and appointed to Salem Circuit, in New Jersey, but did not travel it. The next year (1797) he was again received, and sent to jMiiklletowii Circuit, Conn. His subsequent appointments were as follows: in 179iS, to Croton Circuit, where he spent three months, and was then sent to Middletown again ; in 1799, to Whiting- ham, to form a new circuit ; in 1800, to Fletcher (for- merly Essex); in 18U1, to New London; in 1802, to Bay Quinta, Upper Canada; in 1803, to Niagara; in 1804, to Burlington, N. J. ; in 1805, to Elizabethtown Circuit; in 1806, to Somerset, Md. ; in 1807, to Holland Purchase as missionary; from 1808 to 1809, to Cayuga District; in 1810, to Gloucester Circuit, N. J.; from"l8lo to 1814, to East Jersey District; in 1815, to Salem Cir- cuit; in 1816, to Freehold; in 1817, to Bergen ; in 1818, to Gloucester; from 1819 to 1820, as supernumerary; and ill 1821, taking a su|)erannuated relation, he resided in Pemberton, N. J., until his death, Oct. 17, 1850. ]Mr. Van Nest was revered as a veteran throughout the Church. In all his appointments he did brave service, and his labors in New England, Canada, Western New York, and New Jersey were instrumental in the rescue of hundreds of souls. From the time that he ceased to be effective until his death — a period of about thirty-one years — he had his home at Pemberton, N. J., where he was eminently useful and highly respected and ven- erated. He watched over the Church in tliat place with exemplary fidelity to the last. When he was in liis ninety-second year, he was often seen, witli staff in hand, going about from house to house, and inquiring with great interest in respect to both the temporal and spiritual welfare of the inmates. His death was not only peaceful, but triumphant. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, iv, 568; Spragiie, Annals of the American Pulpit, vii, 276 ; Stevens, tlist. of the M. E. Church, iii, 433; iv, 17,63,267. (J. L. S.)
Vail Nest, Rynier, a Reformed (DutclO minis- ter, was born near North Branch, N. J., Feb. 8, 1739. He studied privately, and was licensed in 1773. He was pastor at Shawaiigunk and New Paltz, N. Y., from 1774 to 1778; married Catharine (Hagar), widow of Rev. J. M. Goetschius, of Schoharie, Feb. 24, 1776 ; was pastor at Shawangunk and Montgomery from 1778 to 1785; supplied Middleburgh from 1774 to 1780; Schoharie from 1780 to 1785; was jiastor at Jamaica, Newtown, Oyster Bay, and Success, L. I., from 1785 to 1797, and at Schoharie from 1797 to 1803. He died at Readington, N. J.. Jul}' 9, 1813. See Corwin, Manual of the Ref. Church in America, s. v.
Vaniii, Caralier Francesco, an eminent Italian painter, was born at Sienna probably in 1565. He re- ceived some instruction from his father and afterwards from his stepfather, when, at the age of twelve, he went to Bologna and studied under Passarotti. When about sixteen he went to Koine, and became the pupil of Giovanni de' Vecclii, where he chose for his model the works of Federigo Boroccio. On leaving Rome, he travelled through Lombardy. and on returning to Sien- na executed several works for the churches and con-
vents. He was then invited to return to Rome, where he was commissioned by Clement YIII to paint the picture of .*>7. Peter Rebukinij Simon Miifjus. This work still remains on a marble slab in St. Peter's, lionie, and is an object of admiration. His laliors so pleased the pope thai he made him a kniglit of the Order of Christ. His |)rincipal works at Rome are, SI. Michml I'anqirish- inr/ the Rebel Anfjels, in the Church of San Grcgorio: — a Piela, in the Church of Santa Maria in Valicella : — and The Assumption, in the Church of San Lorenzo in IMiran- da. But his best works are to be found at Sienna, among which are the Marriuf/e o/'St. Catherine: — the MaJun- na : — and St. Raymond ]Valkinf/on tin- Sea. He also exe- cuted a few correct and spirited etchings from his own designs, which are highly esteemed. He died at Sienna in 1610. See Spooner, Bior/. I/ist. of the Fine A rts, s. v.
Vanni, Caralier Michael Angelo, an Italian painter of the 17th century, was the eldest son of the cavalier Francesco Vanni, by whom he was instructed in the art. His fame rests chiefly, however, upon his invention of a new process of staining marble in imita- tion of mosaic. There are some of liis paintings in the churches and convents of Sienna, but they are much in- ferior to the best productions of his father. See Spooner, fiio'j. /list, of the Fine A rts, s. v.