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 to Disciples (1828), Naumburg Cathedral; Madonna with St. Ann (1830); Boaz and Ruth (1833); Artist's Portrait (1814), Dresden Museum.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxiii. 201; Hagen ii. 91; N. Necrol. der D. (1835), 59; Raczynski, iii. 200.

NAHL, JOHANN AUGUST, the younger, born at Clanne, near Berne, Jan. 7, 1752, died in Cassel, Jan. 31, 1825. History and landscape painter, son of sculptor of same name; pupil at Cassel of Heinrich Tischbein, the elder, at Strassburg of Tannesch and Bemmel, and in Paris of Le Sueur; went in 1774 to Rome, where for several years he studied after the antique, then copied Raphael and Guido Reni, and, having returned to Cassel in 1781, and visited England and Holland in 1782, lived again in Italy in 1783-93. Through Hackert he was led, at Naples, to landscape painting, which he studied from nature and after the great masters; after his return to Cassel he became professor and in 1815 director of the Academy. Works: Sacrifice to Venus; Cupid drawing Thorn from Venus's Foot; Ariadne in Naxos; Narcissus; Hector's Farewell of Andromache; Achilles at Court of Lycomedes; Ulysses blinding Polyphemus, Cassel Gallery; Wallenstein consulting the Stars, Stuttgart Museum; Venus and Adonis; Ceres lighting the Torch to seek Proserpine; Several Views of the Weissenstein near Cassel. His son, Johann Wilhelm (born in Cassel in 1804, died there, June 14, 1880), was a portrait and history painter, pupil of his father and of Wiegand.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxiii. 240; Goethe, Winckelmann, ii. 149, 171; Meusel, No. 3, 299; Nagler, x. 105; Kunst-Chronik, xv. 687.

NAIAD, Jean Jacques Henner, Luxembourg Museum, Paris; canvas, H. 1 ft. 4 in. × 2 ft. Nude, lying at full length on her back, under trees, on a grassy bank beside water, with right knee raised and both arms above the head. Engraved by A. Nargeot.—L'Artiste (1882), i. 1.

NAIGEON, JEAN GUILLAUME ELZIDOR, born in Paris, April 8, 1797, died there, Dec. 31, 1867. Genre painter, pupil of Gros and of the École des Beaux Arts. He was the son of Jean Naigeon (1753-1832), a pupil of David, painter, sculptor, and director of the Paris picture galleries in the time of Napoleon I., as well as first custodian of the Luxembourg Museum (1812). Jean Guillaume succeeded his father in this office (1831), and in 1861 was appointed custodian of the Egyptian Museum at the Louvre. Won the 2d grand prix in 1827. Medal of 2d class, 1833; L. of Honour, 1843. Works: Magdalen in the Desert (1831); Neapolitan praying for her Child (1833); Neapolitan Nurse (1836); Vintage at Amalfi (1841), formerly in Luxembourg Museum; Adoration of the Magi (1845); Gleaners in Vicinity of Naples, Vintage of Amalfi (1857); Taking of Boulogne in 1511, Portraits of Henri II. of France, Philippe d'Orléans, Archbishop Huet, Comtesse de Parabère, Comte de Peluse, Versailles Museum.—Bellier, ii. 146; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1832), 396; (1843), 207; Gaz. des B. Arts (1861), ix. 256; Larousse.

NAIVEU (Neveu), MATHYS, born at Leyden in 1647, died at Amsterdam about 1721. Dutch school; genre painter, pupil of Abraham Torenvliet and of Gerard Dou, whom he took for his model and imitated successfully. Settled at Amsterdam in 1677. Works: St. Jerome (1676), Amsterdam Museum; do. (1695), Moltke Collection, Copenhagen; Captains of the Undertakers' Guild at Leyden (1677); Works of Mercy, Leyden Museum; The Invalid, New York Museum.—Kramm, iv. 1195.

NAKKEN, WILLEM CAREL, born at The Hague, April 9, 1835. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of A. F. Dona. Medal at Philadelphia, 1876. Works: At Harvest (1874); Normandy Pack-Horses in Winter (1875), Amsterdam Museum; Men loading Wagon by a Quarry, Rotterdam Museum; Étalon Normand, Inn Stable, Paris Exposi