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 NICHOLAS NICHOLAS, ST., GLORY OF, Lorenzo Lotto, S. M. del Carmine, Venice ; canvas, life-size. SS. Nicholas, Lucy, and 1 John Baptist float and kneel in the clouds ; be- neath, a landscape with figures on foot and St. George on horseback killing the dragon. Painted about 1529. Injured by restora- tion. Vasari, ed. Mil., v. 250 ; Lomazzo, Idea, 139 ; C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 521. NICIAS, Greek painter, Thebau-Attic school ; pupil of Antidotua, first part of 4th century B.C. He preferred large subjects, thinking it waste skill and labour to paint small objects, such as birds and flowers. He excelled in aerial perspective and in chiaro-oscuro ; was famous for his female figures, and very happy in his pictures of dogs. Pliny says (xxxv. 20) he was the first who used usta (burnt ceruse). Praxiteles said that he prized most among his statues those which had been coloured by Nicias. Among his noted pictures were a Necroman- tia, or representation of the infernal regions as described by Homer, which he declined to sell to King Ptolemy for sixty talents, because he preferred to give it to his native city ; Nemea seated on a Lion, placed in the Curia at Rome by Augustus ; Father Liber, preserved in the Temple of Concord at Rome ; Hyacinthus, which Augustus car- ried from Alexandria to Rome, and which Tiberius dedicated in the Temple of Augus- tus ; lo, Andromeda, Calypso, and Alex- ander, in the Portico of Pompey ; Dauac, and Calypso seated. Pliny, xxxv. 40 [131, 133] ; Paus., iii. 29, 15 ; vii. 22, G ; Demet. Phal. Eloc., 76 ; Pint, de Glor. Athen., 2 ; Fronto ad Verum, i. (p. 124) ed. Mai ; Var. Hist., Ill, 31 ; Brunn, ii. 194. NICKELE (Nikkelen), ISAAK VAN, born in Haarlem about 1630 (?), died there, Dec. 25, 1703. Architecture painter ; entered the guild in 1660, and painted interiors of extraordinary clearness. Works : Interior of Church at Haarlem, Brussels Museum ; do. (1693), Haarlem Museum ; Interior of Gothic Church, Six Collection, Amsterdam ; do., Darmstadt Museum ; do., Museo Civico, Venice ; do. (1693), and Interior of New Church at Delft, Brunswick Gallery ; Inte- riors of Protestant Church (2, one dated 1698), Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; others in Copenhagen Gallery and Stockholm Mu- scum. D. Kunstbl. (1854), 77 ; Kramm, iv. 1201 ; Riegel, Beitnige, ii. 434 ; Van der Willigeu, 231. NICKELE, JAN VAN, born in Haarlem in 1649, died in Cassel in 1716. Landscape painter, son and pupil of Isaak van Nickele. He spent some time in the service of the Elector of the Palatinate, in Diisseldorf, afterwards at the court of Hesse-Cassel. Works : Stag in a Wood, Cassel Gallery ; Series of Views, Gallery of Castle of Wil- helmshohe near Cassel ; Two Landscapes, Dresden Gallery ; Castle Benrath in Berg (2, 1714, 1715), Sehleissheim Gallery ; Church Interiors (2), Czerniu Gallery, Vienna. Immerzcel, ii. 264 ; Kuglcr (Crowe), ii. 545. NICKOL, (KARL) FRIEDRICH (ADOLPH), born at Schoppenstedt, Bruns- wick, in 1824. Animal and landscape paint- er, pupil in Brunswick of Heinrich Brandos ; went in 1846 to Munich, and visited Belgi- um, Holland, France, and, in 1853-54, Italy. Professor at Polytechnic Institute in Bruns- wick. Works : Moonlight Night in Holland ; Moonlight Landscape with Cattle ; The Mi- ser ; Fight with Eagle ; Four Divisions of Day; Seven Italian Landscapes. Miiller, 393. NICOL, ERSKINE, born at Leith, Scot- land, July, 1825. Genre painter, pu- pil of Trustees' Academy, Edin- burgh ; when twenty years old went to Dublin, where he lived four years, and after his return to Edinburgh paint- ed Hibernian subjects with so much skill 345