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 XIGIIT WATCH genius floating above. Scribner's Mag., xix. 175. NIGHT WATCH, Rembrandt. Sec Sortie of tlie Banning Cock Company. NIGHT-WATCH IN SMYRNA, Alexan- dra Gabriel Decamps, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New York ; canvas. A captain of Spahis, in Ar- naut costume, riding a beautiful barb, with his followers running beside him on foot. Art Treas. of America, i. 119, 126. NIKKELEN. See NicMr. NIKUTOWSKI, JOHANN ARTHUR SEVERIN, born at Salwarschienen, near Kunigsberg, Jan. 9, 18!0. Genre and bat- tle painter, pupil of Ki'migsberg Academy, then in Diisseldorf (1847) and Carlsruhe (1859) of Lessing ; settled in Diisseldorf in 18G5. Works : Crossing the Beresina (1858), Carlsruhe Gallery ; Russian Land- Waiters pursuing Smugglers (18G1) ; End of Battle of Leipsic (1863); Return of War- riors ; Departure of Landwehr Officer ; Peasants burying their Child (1870) ; Epi- sode in Polish Insurrection (1871) ; Burial of Polish Champion of Liberty (1872); Burn- ing Village in Winter (1877). Meyer, Couv. Lex., xvii. G07 ; Br. Meyer, Stud", u. Krit., 239 ; Miiller, 349 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, vi. 151. NILS ON, FRIEDRICH CHRISTOF, born in Augsburg, March 9, 1811, died in Munich, Dec. 19, 1879. History painter, first instructed by his father, Johann Phi- lipp, then pupil of Munich Academy under Cornelius, Schlotthauer, Clemens Zimmer- inann, and Julius Schnorr. Works : Thirty- nine scenes from Greek War of Indepen- dence, Arcades of Royal Garden, Munich ; Portrait Medallions and Figures, Staircase of Royal Library, ib. ; Mother and Sou ; Re- ception of the Wounded ; Lyric Muse ; Dra- matic Muse. Academy (1880), i. 1G ; Kunst- Chronik, xv. 372. NIN Y TUDO, JOSE, born in Catalonia, Spain ; contemporary. History painter, pupil of Barcelona Academy. Works : Heroes of Independence; End of Bull-Fight. La Ilustraciou (1877). NINO DE VALLECAS, Velasquez, Ma- drid Museum ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 4 in. x 2 ft. 9 in. A jester, in green dress with grey sleeves, seated beside a rock. Painted be- tween 1G31 and 1649. Engraved by B. Vasquez ; etched by Goya ; Laguillermie ; Maura ; Pineda. Stirling, iii. 1391 ; Cur- tis, 30 ; Madrazo, 632. NIN OS DE LA CONCHA. See Christ and St. John. NINUS AND SEMIRAMIS, Guulo Reni, Dresden Gallery ; canvas, H. 13 ft. x 7 f t. 2 iii. Ninus, enamoured of Semiramis, re- signs to her his crown for a day ; she, seat- ed by his side, is about to put it on her head. Purchased for the Marchese Tanara as Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, for G,000 Roman scudi, by Canon Luigi Crespi, 1752. Engraved by I. M. Preisler. Gal. roy. de Dresde, ii. PI. 20 ; Dresden Cat, Introduction, 3G. NINUS AND SEMIRAMIS, MARRIAGE OF. See Minn. NISS, THORVALD, born at Assens, Fii- nen, May 7, 1842. Landscape painter, pupil of his father and of Copenhagen Academy ; took part as a volunteer in the campaign of 1864. Gold medal, Vienna, 1882 ; medal, Copen- hagen, 1883. Works: Views near Copen- hagen (1870, 1871) ; View in Jaegersborg Deer Park (1875) ; Heath and Forest-Patch at Vendsyssel (1876) ; October Day in Borre- vejle Woods (1878) ; Fuukedammen near Frederiksborg, September Day in Jaegers- borg Deer Park (1881); Winter Day (1883), Copenhagen Gallery ; do. (1885). Sig. Mtil- ler, 263. NITTIS, GIUSEPPE DE', born at Bar- letta, near Naples, in 1846, died in Paris, Aug. 22, 1884. Genre, landscape, and archi- tecture painter, pupil of Naples Academy, then studied in Paris (1868) under Brandon, 848