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 (1873), Königsberg Museum; Orpheus and Eurydice (1876); Four Scenes from the Odyssey; On the Scene of the Deed, Tired of Life (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886). Fresco: Astronomy and Natural Science (1868), Königsberg University.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1880), ii. 345; Müller, 390; Kunst-Chronik, ix. 11.

NELLI, OTTAVIANO, born at Gubbio, died after 1444. Umbrian school; son and pupil of Martino Nelli; employed at Perugia in 1400, and elected consul at Gubbio, 1410. He is best known by the so-called Madonna del Belvedere, in S. M. Nuova, Gubbio. The Virgin of Succour, a wall painting of Madonna with Saints and Angels, and the choir frescos, Legend of St. Augustin (about 1420), S. Agostino, Gubbio, are by Nelli and his scholars. His fellow-pupil, Gentile da Fabriano, probably assisted him in these works, and in painting a fresco of the Virgin and Angels, in S. M. della Piaggiuola, near Gubbio. In 1420 he went to Urbino, and in 1424 painted the Legend of the Virgin, a mediocre work, in the Trinci Chapel, Foligno. His mural paintings in S. Piero, Gubbio, were destroyed in the last century. Nothing is known of Nelli after 1424.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 87; Cibo, Niccolò Alunno e la scuola Umbra, 20; Buonfatti, mem. storiche di Ottaviano Nelli (Gubbio, 1843); Burckhardt, 555; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Malerei, i. 212.

NELSON, DEATH OF, JOSEPH M. W. Turner, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 5 ft. 8 in. × 7 ft. 10 in. The battle of Trafalgar, as seen from the mizzen starboard shrouds of the Victory. Nelson has just fallen, and has been carried down from the quarter-deck. British Institute, 1808; Turner Collection. Engraved by J. B. Allen.—Cat. Nat. Gal.

NÉMOZ, JEAN BAPTISTE AUGUSTIN, born at Thodure (Isère); contemporary. Figure and portrait painter, pupil of Picot and of Cabanel. Medal, 3d class, 1877. Works: Before the Crime (1864); Penelope (1866); Wisdom chasing Love (1867); During Absence of Ulysses (1869); Vision of the Virgin (1870); Preparations for War (1873); Temptation (1874); A Chimera (1876); Theseus going to fight the Minotaur (1877); Paradise Lost (1878); Salmacis (1879); Badly Received (1880); After the Crime (1881); Amymone, Eve (1882); Young Lady, Sappho (1883); Ariadne (1884); Nero before the Body of Agrippina, Penelope (1885).

NEOCLES. See Nealces.

NEPTUNE AND AMPHITRITE, Rubens, Berlin Museum; canvas, H. 9 ft. 6 in. × 10 ft. Neptune, his trident in his hand, seated in his chariot, attended by tritons, nereids, and animals emblematical of his power and sovereignty; by his side stands Amphitrite, taking pearls from a shell held by a triton, while a cupid adorns her wrists with pearls. Painted about 1609-12; acquired in 1881 from Schönborn Collection, Vienna. Engraved by Schmuzer.—Smith, ii. 302; Meyer, Museen, 388.

NEPTUNE AND PALLAS, Garofalo, Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 6 ft. 11 in. × 4 ft. 6 in. Neptune is a portrait of Andrea Doria. Painted about 1512. From Modena Collection.

NERENZ, WILHELM, born in Berlin, Aug. 10, 1804, died there, Oct. 23, 1871. Genre painter, pupil in Berlin of W. Schadow, under whom also he studied for three years at the Düsseldorf Academy (1833-36); returned to Berlin, whence he visited Dresden and Italy in 1847. Works: Goldsmith's Daughter; Return of Youth from Foreign Parts; Käthchen von Heilbronn; At the Armourers (1840), National Gallery, Berlin.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1835), 87, 158; (1847), 100; D. Kunstbl. (1855), 200; (1857), 113; Nagler, x. 185.

NERI DI BICCI. See Bicci, Neri di.

NERLY, FEDERIGO, born at Erfurt, Nov. 24, 1807, died in Venice, Oct. 21, 1878. Real name Friedrich von Nehrlich.