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 the Stuttgart Art School. Member of Vienna and Munich Academies; Commander Order of Frederic; Officer Order of Leopold; Order of Michael. Works: Abraham visited by the Angels, Basle Museum; Death of Duke Ulrich at Döffingen; Raising of Youth at Nain (1831), Descent from the Cross (1855), Stuttgart Museum; Crucifixion (1850); Spring (1858), Royal Palace, Stuttgart; Noah's Sacrifice (1861); Christ blessing the Children (1863); Abraham's Intercession (1872); Last Judgment (1873). Frescos: Entry of Emperor Louis the Bavarian after Battle of Ampfing (1832-35), Isarthor, Munich (cartoon of it in Weimar Museum); thirty-four pictures after Schiller's and twenty-eight after Goethe's Poems (1836-39), Ducal Palace, Weimar.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxiii. 381; Journal des B. Arts (1864), Nos. 18-19; Müller, 389; Nagler, x. 173; Illustr. Zeitg. (1874), i. 328; (1875), i. 230; (1883), ii. 423; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 110; xviii. 309; Kunst für Alle, i. 149.

NEHER, MICHAEL, born in Munich, March 31, 1798, died there, Dec. 4, 1876. Architecture painter, first instructed by Mitterer, pupil in 1813-16 of Munich Academy under J. P. von Langer, and in 1816-18 of Mathias Klotz; was employed by Angelo Quaglio to paint decorations for the theatre, went to Italy, and for three years painted portraits in Trent, Milan, and Trieste, then spent three years in Rome, where, influenced by Heinrich Hess, he took up genre painting. On his return to Munich, in 1823, he became conservator of the Art Union, executed in 1836, in the castle of Hohenschwangau, frescos after compositions by Schwind, Gasser, and Schwanthaler, and in 1837 devoted himself entirely to architectural subjects, for which he afterwards made extensive studies on the Rhine and in Belgium. Honorary member of Munich Academy in 1872; Order of Michael. Works: Freiburg Minster; City Hall and St. Peter's at Louvain; Frankfort Cathedral; Mechlin Cathedral, Tournay; Cathedral, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Magdeburg Cathedral (1855), Prague Cathedral, Interior of Chapel at Castle Trausnitz (1838), Church of Bebenhausen Convent (1848), Views in Munich (3, 1842-43), Poultry Venders in Rome (1825), Lichtenthal near Baden-Baden (1859), St. Vitus' Church in Prague, St. Martin's at Brunswick, New Pinakothek, Munich; Church Interior (1838), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Courtyard of Monastery at Kaufbeuern (1852), Leipsic Museum; Street in Antwerp (1860), Schwerin Gallery; Market-Square and Cathedral at Reutlingen, Wiesbaden Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxiii. 388; Illustr. Zeitg. (1876), ii. 520; Kunst-Chronik, xii. 273; Regnet, ii. 72.

NEHLIG, VICTOR, born in Paris in 1830. Figure painter, pupil of Cogniet and Abel de Pujol in Paris. Settled in New York in 1850; elected N.A. in 1870; returned to Europe in 1872. Works: Armourer of the Olden Time; Gertrude of Wyoming; Artist's Dream; Cavalry Charge of Lieutenant Hidden, Historical Society, New York; Battle at Antietam, William Astor, ib.; Captive Huguenot; Pocahontas; Hiawatha; The Bravo (1870); Mahogany Cutting (1871); Serenade, C. H. Wolff, Philadelphia; Waiting for my Enemy, Mrs. Joseph Harrison, ib.; Battle of Gettysburg.—Tuckerman, 492.

NEHRLICH. See Nerly.

NEIDE, EMIL, born in Königsberg in 1842. History painter, pupil of Königsberg, Düsseldorf, and Munich Academies, at the latter under W. Diez; travelled in Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy. Professor at Königsberg Academy. Works: Psyche taken by Charon to the Nether World