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 NEROCCHIO DI BARTOLOMMEO DE' LANDI, born in Siena in 1447, died there in 1500. Sienese school; of moderate ability, he held a good position in his native city. His style varies but little from that of Vecchietta, except that the attitudes of his figures are more affected and unnatural. Most of his extant works are in the Siena Academy.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 68.

NESEAS (Neseus), painter, of Thasos, about 424 Supposed by some to have been the master of Zeuxis.—Pliny, xxxv. 36 [61]; Brunn, ii. 74.

NESSELTHALER, ANDREAS, born at Langenisarhofen, Bavaria, in 1748, died at Salzburg in 1821. History, portrait, and landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy; went in 1779 to Rome, where he assisted Unterberger in copying Raphael's loggia paintings for the Russian Court; painted with Füger allegories in fresco in the queen's palace at Caserta, near Naples, and on his return to Rome had great success with encaustic paintings, especially for the Empress of Russia. In 1789 he settled at Salzburg, whither he had been called by Archbishop Jerome, and painted in oil, encaustic, fresco, and water-colours for many churches in and around that city. Works: Alliance of Arminius against Rome; Roman Embassy concluding Peace with the Almains; Nativity; Death of St. Joseph; St. John the Baptist; Ave Maria; Death of Cato, Abbey of St. Florian, Upper Austria; Old Man playing the Lyre, Vienna Museum.—Hormayr's Archiv (1833), 120, 128; Wurzbach, xx. 196.

NESSUS, painter, son of Habron; date unknown.—Pliny, xxxv. 40 [146]; Brunn, ii. 300.

NETSCHER, CASPAR, born at Heidelberg in 1639, died at The Hague, Jan. 15, 1684. Dutch school; genre and portrait painter, pupil at Arnheim of Koster, then at Deventer of Gerard Terburg, who taught him to paint genre pictures. Later he painted portraits, in which he excelled. At the age of twenty he started on a journey to Italy, but at Bordeaux he married Marie Godin (1659) and returned to The Hague, where he became free of the guild in 1663. Works: Children blowing Bubbles (1670), Maternal Instruction, Lady at Spinning Wheel (1665), National Gallery, London; Portrait of William III., Buckingham Palace, ib.; The Toilet, Portrait of Lady, Bridgewater Gallery, ib.; Boy blowing Bubbles, Lord Ashburton, ib.; Lady and Gentleman feeding Parrot and Monkey, Mr. Hope, ib.; Mother and Child, Young Lady and Old Woman, Mr. Baring, ib.; Singing Lesson, Violoncello Lesson, Louvre; Duke of Monmouth, Versailles Museum; Artist with Wife and Daughter (1665), Male Portrait (1677), Female do. (1683), Hague Museum; Mother combing Child's Hair, Portrait of Constantine Huygens (1672), two other Male Portraits (one 1673), Amsterdam Museum; Female Portrait, Haarlem Museum; Male Portrait (1662), Female do. (1683), Family Scene in a Garden (1667), Rotterdam Museum; Male Portrait (1680), Aschaffenburg Gallery; Death of Cleopatra (1673), Carlsruhe Gallery; Time clipping Cupid's Wings, Portrait of himself (1667), Mme. de Maintenon (1670), Mme. de Montespan, Lady with Violoncello, Lady at Toilet-Table (1667), Two Women Masquerading (1668), Cassel Gallery; Shepherd and Shepherdess (1683), Brunswick Gallery; Boy with Brace of Partridges (1677), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Musical Party (1665), Lady with Parrot (1666), Bathsheba (1667), Boy playing Flute (1668), Shepherd and Peasant Girl (1681), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Lady and Gentleman at Piano (1660), Physician feeling Pulse of Lady (1664), Young Man writ