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Rh and, after its consolidation with the other elevated system to form the Manhattan road, held office in the latter company. In 1884 he undertook and carried to completion a block of apartment-houses which is the largest in the United States. It fronts on Central park. New York, and cost more than 16,000,000. The style of architecture is Moorish, and the buildings are named after the principal cities of his native country. Although he has not changed his nationality, he is an admirer of the government and people of the United States, and has taken great interest in all public matters, po- litical, economical, and philanthropic. He has been a member of the New York chamber of com- merce for more than thirty years, and has been •connected with the Equitable life insurance com- pany. Mr. Navarro has published a pamphlet on "Spanish America" in its commercial relations with this countrv (New York, 1860).

NAZREZ, Willis, Canadian M. E. bishop, b. in Canada in 1820 : d. in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 12 Aug., 1875. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1850, preached for several years in Canada, and after the separation of the Canadian church from that in the United States was elected bishop of the colored Canadian Methodist church. He was also for many years •editor of the " Canadian," the organ of that body.

NEAD, Benjamin Matthias, author, b. in An- trim, Franklin co.. Pa., 14 July, 1847. He was gfraduated at Yale in 1870, studied law in Cham- bersburg, and was admitted to the bar, 4 June, 1872. In 1875 he was appointed state tax clerk in the auditor - general's office, which post he held until May, 1881, when he resumed the practice of his profession in Harrisburg. In January, 1887, he became editor of the Harrisburg " Daily Patri- ot," the Democratic organ at the state capital. He has published " Sketches of Early Chambersburg " (1872); '-Historical Sketch of Franklin County" (1876) ; " Historical Notes on the Early Govern- ment and Legislative Councils and Assemblies of Pennsylvania " (Harrisburg, 1879) ; " A Brief Re- view of the Financial History of Pennsylvania, and of the Methods of Auditing Public Accounts " <1881); " Nead's Guide to County Officers " (1877) ; and was one of the editors of the " Colonial and Provincial Laws of Pennsylvania " (1879).

NEAGLE, John, portrait-painter, b. in Boston, Mass., 4 Nov., 1796; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 17 Sept., 1865. His parents were residents of Phila- delphia, and at the time of his birth were tempo- rarily visiting in Boston. He received a quarter's instruction from Peter Ancora, a drawing-teacher, and gleaned some knowledge of painting from Pet- ticolas, a miniature-painter. He began his career as apprentice to a coach-painter, but his master was ambitious and took some lessons in painting from Bass Otis, from whom Neagle subsequently received in two months all the instruction he ever had from a professional artist. In 1818 he determined to de- vote himself to portrait-painting, and removed to Lexington, Ky., and thence to Frankford, Louis- ville, and New Orleans, but returned to Philadel- phia two years later. His first decided success was a portrait of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Pilmore, which is in St. George's hall, Philadelphia. In 1825 he painted his celebrated full-length portrait of Patrick Lyon, the blacksmith, at his forge, which is now in the Pennsylvania academy of the fine arts, Philadelphia. The small study for it belongs to the Boston athenasum. The University of Pennsylvania owns five of his most notable portraits, the Union league, Philadelphia, has his full-length portrait of Henry Clay, the Philadelphia library that of Dr. Thomas Parke, and the Museum of fine arts, Boston, that of Gilbert Stuart, and the Pennsylvania historical society several of his Indian portraits. Other important portraits by Neagle are Mathew Carey, Rev. Dr. G. T. Bedell, Bishop Meade, of Virginia, Com. James Barron, and Judge Sharswood. This last is in the gallery of the Law association of Philadelphia. He also painted numerous dramatic portraits, including one of Edmund Kean as Richard III., which is the only portrait of that actor that was painted in this country. For several years before his death he had been unable to work, owing to a stroke of paralysis from which he never recovered. He was one of the founders and for many years president of the Artist fund society of Philadel- phia, and was a man of close observation and re- markable individuality. As a painter he was a powerful color ist, a skilful delineator of character, and a vigorous draughtsman, and unquestionably stands second only to Gilbert Stuart among Ameri- can portrait-painters. In 1820 he married a daugh- ter of Thomas Sully.

NEAL, Daniel, English clergyman, b. in Lon- don, 14 Dec, 1678 ; d. in Bath, England, in April, 1742. He was for many years pastor of an inde- pendent congregation in London, and delivered lectures on Protestant polemics that were attended by the most learned men of the day. He published a " History of New England," containing an ac- count of the civil and ecclesiastical affairs of the colony to the year 1700, to which is added an ap- pendix containing their charter, their ecclesiastical discipline, and their municipal laws (2 vols, Lon- don, 1720) ; " Narrative of the Inoculation of Small-Pox in New England " (1722) ; and " History of the Puritans from the Reformation in 1517 till the Revolution in 1688 " (4 vols., London, 1732-'8 ; new ed., with life and writings of the author by Joshua Toulmin, Bath, 1793 ; abridged by Edward Payson, 1812 ; American ed., with notes by John 0. Choules, New York, 1844).

NEAL, David Dolloff, artist, b. in Lowell, Mass., 20 Oct., 1837. His talent for drawing showed itself at an early age, and after going to New Orleans he attempted in his leisure there to improve himself in the art that he had already determined to follow. He decided to go to San Francisco, and after working there for some time, making drawings on wood and occasionally painting portraits, he was enabled, about 1862, through the generosity of a friend, to execute his long-cherished plan of going to Europe. He became a pupil of the Royal academy in Munich, and a year later married a daughter of the Chevalier Ainmiiller, whose studio he entered, and received there his first regular lessons in oil-painting. For some time Neal devoted himself mainly to the painting of interiors, among his works of that class being " Chapel of the Nonberg Convent, Salzburg " (1864) ; " Chapel of the Kings at Westminster"; "St. Mark's " (1869) ; and " On the Grand Canal, Venice." But his original purpose of devoting himself to figure-painting was not forgotten, and, when opportunity offered, he became a pupil of Alexander Wagner, and about 1867 of Carl von Piloty, with whom he studied for several years. His first figure composition, " James Watt," was exhibited at the Royal academy in London, and in 1875 he painted his best -known work, " The First Meeting of Mary Stuart and Rizzio." When it was first exhibited, in 1876, it received the great medal from the Royal Bavarian academy. His other notable works include " Retour du Chasse " (1870); " The Burgomaster " (1873) ; and " Oliver Crom-