Thanks to Montagu, Verro made his English debut working for aristocrats such as the 1st Earl of Arlington ( Euston Hall and Arlington House, now destroyed ) and the 1st Duke of Lauderdale ( Ham House, now a property of The National Trust ), and rapidly acquired the royal patronage of Charles II.

On the succession of James II, Verro continued his royal service and decorated Whitehall Palace ( burnt in 1698 ) and Henry VIII ’ s Chapel at Windsor ( destroyed ).

Verro, who had worked for the nobility while he was employed by Charles and James, returned to his aristocratic clientele.

After having worked at Windsor again, Verro undertook the decoration of Hampton Court Palace for William.

Antonio Verro and the Royal image at Hampton Court, British Art Journal, Volume X No. 3, Winter / Spring 2009 / 10, Special 10th Anniversary Double Issue

Before his death, on 15 June 1707, Verro painted a series of portraits including his self-portrait, now in the National Portrait Gallery.

The Italian-born Antonio Verro ( c1636 – 15 June 1707 ) was responsible for introducing Baroque mural painting into England and served the Crown over a thirty year period.

Several works by Verro still exist in the Apulian city, including S. Francesco Savario appare al Beato Marcello Mastrilli – his first known signed work.

Around 1665, Verro moved to the region of Toulouse where he was commissioned to decorate the Château Bonrepos, the property of Pierre-Paul Riquet, promoter of the Canal du Midi.

In March 1672, Verro crossed the Channel on the recommendation of Ralph Montagu, who had been English Ambassador Extraodinary in Paris since 1669.

By 1675, Verro had painted the exquisite allegorical portrait of the king known as The Sea Triumph of Charles II, and was ‘ denizened ’ on the 5 May of that year.

At the Glorious Revolution, Verro did not receive any further royal protection from William III and had to leave the court.

By 1699, William finally overrode the Test Act and invited Verro back to court.

At his death, in 1702, Verro continued his royal service and painted for Queen Anne his last royal commission in the Queen ’ s Drawing Room.

Antonio Verro, His Career and surviving work, British Art Journal, Volume X No. 3, Winter / Spring 2009 / 10, Special 10th Anniversary Double Issue

Antonio Verro, Chroniques d ' un peintre italien voyageur, Musée des Augustins et Mairie de Toulouse, 2010.

One of the first accounts of an initiation ceremony into the Mafia was given by Bernardino Verro, a leader of the Fasci Siciliani, a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration, which arose in Sicily in the early 1890s.

" ( Soon after Verro broke with the Mafia and – according to police reports – became their most bitter enemy.

Verro is a swimming-pool cleaning robot released in April 2007.

Sophocles was appreciative enough of the younger poet to be influenced by him, as is evident in his later plays Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.

He has influenced many younger creators ( Giorgio Cavazzano was his inker during the Sixties ) and many have attempted to imitate his style.

Although he was influenced by French Symbolism, Yeats concentrated on an identifiably Irish content and this inclination was reinforced by his involvement with a new generation of younger and emerging Irish authors.

Dunstan, whilst in exile became influenced by the Benedictines of Flanders and a pro-Dunstan, pro-Benedictine party began to form around Athelstan Half-King's domain of East Anglia supporting Eadwig's younger brother Edgar.

Though never a paid critic as Debussy had been, Ravel had strong opinions on historical and contemporary music and musicians, which influenced his younger contemporaries.

In his later years, Williams took on the role of elder statesman and mentored and influenced younger poets.

" Her musical style and choreography have influenced and inspired a younger generation of recording artists.

" Pop music critic Gene Stout commented she " has so broadly influenced a younger generation of performers, from Jennifer Lopez ... to Britney Spears, who has copied so many of Jackson's dance moves.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was influenced by Schopenhauer when younger, but later felt him to be wrong.

It is assumed that these younger painters were influenced by Daubigny.

The music of many Sun Records musicians helped lay part of the foundation of late 20th century rock and roll, plus it influenced many younger musicians, particularly the Beatles.

Bloomington's liberal outlook has been influenced by the younger population which dominates much of the city, as well as the presence of Indiana University which has a reputation of having a large liberal student body.

This was because they had been overtaken stylistically by the accomplishments of younger composers, and because some of their compositional devices were appropriated by other members of The Five — the most notable example of the latter is Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, which was influenced by Balakirev's symphonic poem Tamara.

Frank writes that this revisionism has unfairly influenced younger listeners and critics, who may have not heard as many of Toscanini's performances as older listeners, and as a result, Toscanini's reputation, extraordinarily high in the years that he was active, has suffered a decline.

Jackson never recorded, but portions of his style are no doubt to be found in the recordings of younger musicians he influenced, like Jelly Roll Morton, Clarence Williams, and Steve Lewis.

The band was a combination of New Orleans and Chicago musicians who helped shape Chicago Jazz and influenced many younger jazz musicians.

His style influenced many younger Chicago musicians, most famously Benny Goodman.

He influenced several younger Finnish painters and helped fellow Finnish artists such as Akseli Gallen-Kallela to make their breakthrough in Paris.

This innovation may have been influenced by Rath's younger son, John Pashley, who worked at Girling.

Brown was influenced by these writers and in turn exerted an influence on them and their younger studiers, for example in Godwin's later novels, or in the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley, who reread Brown as she wrote her novels Frankenstein ; or, The Modern Prometheus ( 1818 ) and The Last Man ( 1826 ).

Having both staunch admirers and strong critics, Seldes influenced many younger journalists.

At the age of 13, he began playing skiffle music with his younger brother David, (" Davey " on the album Flat Baroque and Berserk ), as well as becoming influenced by blues music.

Despite their uncharacteristic genre in their home country, the band is one of the top acts of the Serbian rock scene and has influenced several younger Serbian bands, most notably Tir na n ' Og and Irish Stew of Sindidun.

He is noted for developing the consort fantasia for viols, being influenced in the 1630s by an earlier generation of English composers including Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, Thomas Lupo, John Coprario and Orlando Gibbons.