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 NEROCCHIO NEEOCCHIO DI BAETOLOMMEO DE' LANDI, born in Sieiia iu 14-17, died there in 1500. Sienesc school ; of moderate abil- ity, he held a good position iu his native city. His style varies but little from that of Vecchietta, except that the attitudes of his figures are more affected and unnatural. Most of his extant works are in the Siena Academy. C. & C., Italy, iii. 68. NESEAS (Neseus), painter, of Thasos, about 424 B.C. Supposed by some to have been the master of Zeuxis. Pliny, xxxv. 30 [61] ; Brunn, ii. 74. NESSELTHALER, ANDREAS, born at Langenisarhofen, Bavaria, in 1748, died at Salzburg in 1821. History, portrait, and landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Acad- emy ; went in 1779 to Rome, where he as- sisted TJnterberger in copying Raphael's loggia paintings for the Russian Court ; painted with Fiiger allegories in fresco in the queen's palace at Caserta, near Naples, and on his return to Rome had great suc- cess with encaustic paintings, especially for the Empress of Russia. In 1789 ho settled at Salzburg, whither he had been called by Archbishop Jerome, and painted in oil, en- caustic, fresco, and water-colours for many churches in and around that city. Works : Alliance of Armiuius against Rome ; Roman Embassy concluding Peace with the Almains ; Nativity ; Death of St. Joseph ; St. John the Baptist ; Ave Maria ; Death of Cato, Abbey of St. Florian, Upper Austria ; Old Man playing the Lyre, Vienna Museum. Hor- mayr's Archiv (1833), 120, 128 ; Wurzbach, xx. 196. NESSUS, painter, son of Habron ; date unknown. Pliny, xxxv. 40 [146] ; Brunn, ii. 300. NETSCHER, CASPAR, born at Heidel- berg in 1639, died at The Hague, Jan. 15, 1684. Dutch school ; genre and portrait painter, pupil at Aruheim of Koster, then at Deventer of Gerard Terburg, who taught him to paint genre pictures. Later he painted portraits, in which he excelled. At the age of twenty he started on a journey Portrait of "William to Italy, but at Bordeaux ho married Mario Godin (1G59) and returned to The Hague, where he be- came free of the guild in 1063. Works: C h i 1 d r c n blowing Bub- bles (1070), Maternal In- struction, Lady at Spin- ning Wheel , x (100r>), Na- tional Gallery, London : III, Buckingham Palace, ib. ; The Toilet, Portrait of Lady, Bridgewater Gallery, ib. ; Boy blowing Bubbles, Lord Ashburton, ib. ; Lady and Gentleman feeding Parrot and Monkey, Mr. Hope, ib.; Mother and Child, Young Lady and Old Woman, Mr. Baring, ib. ; Singing Lesson, Violoncello Lesson, Louvre ; Duke of Monmouth, Versailles Mu- seum ; Artist with Wife and Daughter (1005), Male Portrait (1677), Female do. (1083), Hague Museum ; Mother combing Child's Hair, Portrait of Constaiitine Huy- gens (1072), two other Male Portraits (one 1073), Amsterdam Museum ; Female Por- trait, Haarlem Museum ; Male Portrait (1662), Female do. (1083), Family Scene in a Garden (1007), Rotterdam Museum ; Male Portrait (1680), Aschafteuburg Gal- lery ; Death of Cleopatra (1673), Carlsruhe Gallery ; Time clipping Cupid's Wings, Por- trait of himself (1667), Mme. de Main tenon (1670), Mme. de Moutespan, Lady with Violoncello, Lady at Toilet-Table (1067), Two Women Masquerading (1668), Cassel Gallery ; Shepherd and Shepherdess (1683), Brunswick Gallery ; Boy with Brace of Partridges (1677), Stiidel Gallery, Frank- fort ; Musical Party (1665), Lady with Par- rot (1666), Bathsheba (1667), Boy playing Flute (1668), Shepherd and Peasant Girl (1681), Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Lady and Gentleman at Piano (1660), Physician feel- ing Pulse of Lady (1664), Young Man writ- 33'J