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 King of the Phæacians and friend of Ulysses (Odyssey, vi. 16, etc.), playing at ball with her maidens on a green sward near the sea-*shore. Companion to Atalanta's Race, and with it forming two of four subjects of similar size and shape executed by Mr. Poynter for Lord Wharncliffe.

NAVARRETE, JUAN FERNANDEZ, called El Mudo (The Dumb), born at Logroño about 1526, died in Toledo, March 28, 1579. Spanish school. When three years old became deaf from illness and never learned to speak. Studied the rudiments of art in the Convent of La Estrella, then went to Italy and became a disciple of Titian. After an absence of twenty years returned with a great reputation, was made painter to the king in 1568, and executed nineteen religious works in the Escorial, where they still remain. Other works: Baptism of Christ, St. Peter, St. Paul, Madrid Museum; St. John in Prison, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Holy Family, Weimar Museum; Lady's Portrait, Darmstadt Museum.—Viardot, Peintres de l'Espagne, 37; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Madrazo, 490; Washburn, 51.

NAVEZ, FRANÇOIS JOSEPH, born at Charleroi, Nov. 16, 1787, died in Brussels, Oct. 12, 1869. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Isidore François, and of Brussels Academy, where he had won all the prizes, when, in 1813, he went to Paris to study under David, whom he followed into exile. In 1817-22 he was in Rome, and in 1839 became director of the Brussels Academy. Order of Lion, 1825; Order of Leopold, 1836; Bavarian Order of Michael, 1851; Officer, 1855; Commander, 1859; Member of Paris, Hague, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Ghent, and Bruges Academies. Works: Virgil reading to Augustus and Octavia the Sixth Book of the Æneid (1811), The Nymph Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (1829), Ghent Museum; Hagar in the Desert; Elijah raising the Child of the Shunamite Woman (1821), Meeting of Rebekah and Isaac (1826), Museum, Amsterdam; Hagar in the Desert, Museum Fodor, ib.; Hermit; Fortune-Teller among Italian Robbers; Incredulity of Thomas; Marriage of the Virgin; Holy Family; Episode from Massacre of Innocents; St. Cecilia; Athalia and Joash (1834); Education of the Virgin; Infant Christ Asleep; Christ and the Adulteress; Vert-Vert's arrival at Nantes (1836); Nathan admonishing David (1839); Raising of Lazarus (1842); Sick Child (1844), National Gallery, Berlin; Spinning Women of Fondi (1845), New Pinakothek, Munich; Holy Family (1851), Artist's portrait, Antwerp Museum; Judgment of Solomon; Christ and the Rich Man.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1836), 136; (1837), 174; D. Kunstbl. (1851), 393; (1855), 360; Immerzeel, ii. 255; Kramm, iv. 1189; Nagler, x. 152; Raczynski, iii. 439.

NAVLET, VICTOR, born at Châlons-sur-Marne, died in Paris, Feb. 25, 1886. Landscape and interior painter, pupil of his father. Medal, 1867. Works: View of Paris (1852), do. (1853), Versailles Museum; Interior of Notre-Dame de Paris (1857); Cour Napoléon (1859), New Louvre, Paris; Sleeping Chamber of Louis XIV. at Versailles, Interior of La Madeleine in Paris (1863);	Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre (1864); Galerie de Henri II. at Fontainebleau (1865), Forum Romanum (1869), Châlons-sur-Marne Museum; Interior in the Vatican (1867), Bordeaux Museum; do. (1868, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1878); Sistine Chapel in Rome (1870); Room in Mu