VIGNERON, Joseph Arthur.—Paris; contemporary. A bow-maker of considerable ability. Worked for some years with Gand and Bernardel.
VIMERCATI, Pietro.—Venice; about 1640-60. Said to be an imitator of Amati. There is a tradition that Stainer worked with him.
VIMERCATI, Paolo.—Venice; seventeenth century. Amati style according to accounts.
VINACCIA.—Naples; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A very large Neapolitan family. Violins bearing their labels are met with, but they are noted more as mandoline makers.
VISSENAIRE, L. Nicolas.—Lyons. Died 1890. A good workman.
VOEL, Jacob.—Mayence, Frankfort-on-the-Maine; about 1840. Well made violins; Stradivari pattern; sound-holes rather wide open; scrolls well cut.
VOGLER, Johann Georg.—Wurzburg; first half of eighteenth century.
VOIGT.—Markneukirchen; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A veritable swarm of makers of the name are enumerated. Upwards of thirty have been engaged in the fiddle business, and one or two of them have had branches of their establishments in this country in very recent years.
VOIRIN, Francis Nicolas.—Paris. Born 1833; died 1885. A celebrated bow-maker. His pattern has been much imitated by modern French makers, such as Lamy, Sartory, and several others.
VOLLER, William.—London. Born 1860. A most skilful imitator of old Italian work. His “facsimiles” have puzzled many by no means uninformed observers by their close resemblance to genuine Italian masterpieces, and have in some instances been productive of law suits. He imitates the appearances of wear with perhaps greater skill than any other workman who has practised the art, not even excepting Vuillaume and John Lott. Two or more brothers are, or were recently, employed in the same line of business.