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 *sée de Cluny (1877); Staircase of Opera House in Paris (1881); Room in Palace of the Senate (1882); do. (1883); Gallery of Busts, ib. (1884); Library of Chamber of Deputies (1885); View of Château d'Ecouen, Interior in same, Palais de la Legion d'Honneur, Paris.—Bellier, ii. 154; Chronique des Arts (1886), 85.

NAZON, (FRANÇOIS) HENRI, born at Réalmont (Tarn), Dec. 25, 1821. Landscape painter, pupil of Gleyre, though he paints in Corot's style. Medals in 1864, 1866. Works: Border of the Tarn; do. of the Seine; Rocks at Caylus; Banks of the Aveyron in Autumn (1863), Luxembourg Museum.—Bellier, ii. 154; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 508; Meyer, Gesch., 788.

NEAGLE, JOHN, born in Boston in 1799, died in 1865. Portrait painter, self-taught. Painted in Philadelphia, Lexington, Ky., and New Orleans. Works: Patrick Lyon the Blacksmith (1826), and portrait of Gilbert Stuart, Athenæum, Boston; Portraits of Henry Clay, Union League Club, Philadelphia; Washington, Independence Hall, ib.; Pat Lyon at the Forge, and portrait of Henry Cary, Pennsylvania Academy, ib.

NEAL, DAVID, born at Lowell, Mass., in 1837. History painter; after working as a wood-engraver he went to Munich in 1861, and became a pupil of the Royal Bavarian Academy; studied under his father-in-law, the Chevalier Ainmuller, in 1862, and under Piloty in 1869-76. Has lived and painted many years in Munich. Exhibits in London, Munich, and New York. Great medal, Royal Bavarian Academy, 1876. Visited New York in 1884. Works: Chapel of the Kings at Westminster (F. Cutting, Boston); St. Mark's—Venice (1869), S. Nickerson, Chicago; Return from the Chase (1870), John Bloodgood, New York; James Watt (1874), Sir B. S. Phillips, London; Burgomaster; First Meeting of Mary Stuart and Rizzio (1876), D. O. Mills, New York; Oliver Cromwell visits Milton (1884), Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland.—Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 354.

NEALCES or NEOCLES, Greek painter, of Sicyon, about 250 He ranks among the best painters of the Neo-Sicyonic school. Pliny mentions (xxxv. [138]) a Venus by him, also a Battle on the Nile between the Persians and the Egyptians. Plutarch relates (Arat. 13) how he saved a picture by Melanthius, about to be destroyed by Aratus, by painting out the figure of Aristratus the tyrant.—R.-R., Schorn, 367; Brunn, ii. 290.

NEAPOLI, FRANCISCO. See Aregio, Pablo de.

NEARCHUS or NICŒARCHUS, painter, father of Aristarete, date and country unknown. Pliny says (xxxv. 40 [141]) he painted a Venus attended by Cupids and Graces, and a Repentant Hercules.—Brunn, ii. 300.

NECK, JOHAN VAN, born at Naarden in 1636, died in Amsterdam in 1714. Dutch school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Jacob Backer. Works: Anatomical Lesson (1683), Museum, Amsterdam; Simeon in the Temple, Catholic Church, ib.; do., Moltke Collection, Copenhagen; Image of Pan by a Grove, Dresden Gallery; Portrait, Historical Society, New York.—Immerzeel, ii. 257; Kramm, iv. 1190.

NEEFFS (Neefs, Neffs, Nefs), PEETER, the elder, born probably in Antwerp between 1578 and 1582, died there after Feb. 26, 1656. Flemish school; unrivalled painter of church interiors; best pupil of Hendrik van Steenwyck, the elder; entered the Antwerp Guild in 1609. The figures in his pictures generally by Frans Francken III., Teniers, Brueghel, and Van Thulden. This painter had great knowledge of aërial and