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 linear perspective, and was very skilful in distributing the effect of light. His pictures are highly finished. Works: Deliverance of St. Peter, and eight Church Interiors, Louvre; Interior of Antwerp Cathedral (2), Church Interior, Brussels Museum; Deliverance of St. Peter (1651), Ghent Museum; others in Museums of Amsterdam (3, two dated 1636), The Hague (1654), Rotterdam, Brunswick, Dresden (1605), Geneva, Gotha (4), Innsbruck, Leipsic, Madrid (7), New York, Vienna; National Galleries, London (1644), and Edinburgh; Galleries of Carlsruhe, Cassel (5), Frankfort, Hamburg, Oldenburg, Schwerin (5), Turin; Old Pinakothek, Munich (2, one dated 1638); Hermitage, St. Petersburg (5); Liechtenstein (2), Czernin and Schönborn Galleries, Vienna; Uffizi, Florence (5, one dated 1636). By his oldest son and pupil, Lodewyck (born at Antwerp, Jan. 22, 1617), who became a monk, is a capital Interior of Antwerp Cathedral (1648, with figures by Frans Francken III.), Dresden Museum; also two Gothic Interiors, Madrid Museum.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxiii. 364; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Burger, Musées, i. 178; Immerzeel, ii. 257; Kugler (Crowe), i. 263; Kramm, iv. 1191; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 72, 122; Rooses (Reber), 434; Van den Branden, 608.

NEEFFS, PEETER, the younger, born in Antwerp, May 23, 1620, died there after 1675. Flemish school; painted, with almost equal excellence, the same subjects as his father and master, Peeter the elder. Works: Interior of Antwerp Cathedral (2), Vienna Museum; do. (1652), and Gothic Church Interior (1653), Schwerin Gallery; do. (1658), Turin Gallery; Interior (1675), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Subterranean Prison, Gotha Museum; Interior of Gothic Church, Basle Museum; do. (3), Aschaffenburg Gallery; others, Lord Hertford's Collection; Two Church Interiors, New York Museum.—Kugler (Crowe), i. 263; Kramm, iv. 1191; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 73, 122; Rooses (Reber), 434; Van den Branden, 612.

NEER, AART VAN DER, born at Amsterdam in 1603, died there, Nov. 9, 1677. Dutch school; landscape painter; was a friend of Cuyp, who occasionally supplied the figures in his landscapes, and an admirable painter of moonlight and twilight scenes. He represented for the most part canals with towns on their banks lighted by the moon, and no other painter has depicted the lights and shadows incident to such scenes with so much truthfulness and clearness. He painted conflagrations also with equal truth. Works: Evening Landscape, River Scene by Moonlight, Canal Scene in Holland, Frost Scene, National Gallery, London; Landscape, Buckingham Palace, ib.; Frozen Canal, Three Landscapes, Lord Overstone, ib.; Large Moonlight Scene, Lord Shaftesbury, ib.; Six Moonlight Scenes, Sir R. Wallace, ib.; Banks of Canal in Holland, Village View, Louvre; Dutch Landscape, Antwerp Museum; Landscape at Night, Pleasures of Winter, The Yssel by Moonlight, Brussels Museum; Burning of Old City Hall at Amsterdam in 1652, Moonlight, Suermondt Museum, Aix-la-Chapelle; others in Museums of Amsterdam (3), Rotterdam, Berlin (6), Brunswick (2), Darmstadt, Dresden (4), Gotha (6, one dated 1643), Innsbruck (3), New York (2), Stuttgart (2), Vienna (2); Galleries of Aschaffenburg (3), Carlsruhe (2), Copenhagen (5), Frankfort (4), Hamburg (5), Oldenburg (3), Schwerin; Old Pinakothek, Munich; Hermitage, St. Petersburg (9); National Gallery, Pesth (3); Liechtenstein (2), Czernin and Schönborn Galleries, Vienna.—All