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 *ing Letter, Gentleman accompanying Lady's Song on Guitar (1665), Mme. de Montespan (1670), do. playing Harp (1671), Lady with Lapdog, Peasant Woman Spinning, Woman with Pin-Cushion, Dresden Gallery; Portrait of Lady, do. of Margrave of Brandenburg, Lute-Player, The Kitchen, Vertumnus and Pomona (1681), Berlin Museum; Portrait of a Lady, Two Ladies and Cavalier (1655), Gotha Museum; Cleopatra with the Serpent, Nymph Asleep watched by Satyr, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Mary Stuart—daughter of James II. (1683), Lady on Balcony (1676), Lady in Garden (1682), Artist's Portrait (1678), Male and Female Portraits, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Male Portrait (1675), Copenhagen Gallery; Bad News (1665), Conversation about Letter, Lady feeding Parrot, Schwerin Gallery; Male and Female Portrait, Stuttgart Museum; The Painter with Wife and Child, Czernin Gallery, Vienna; Lady with Dog, Portrait of Lady Harvey, National Gallery, Pesth; The Grinder of Antwerp (1662), Turin Gallery; Lady winding Watch, Lady praying before Crucifix, Sacrifice to Venus, Painter's Family (1654), Maid polishing Kettle (1664), Sacrifice to Love, Uffizi, Florence; Portrait of Dutch Lady, Museum, New York; Madame de Montespan as St. Cecilia, Historical Society, ib.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxiii. 456; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Burger, Musées, i. 122, 248; ii. 102, 257; Dohme, lii.; Gower, Figure Painters, 77; Immerzeel, ii. 260; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 399; Kramm, iv. 1193; Nagler, Mon., ii. 178; Riegel, Beiträge, i. 78; ii. 334; De Stuers, 98; Quellenschriften, xiv. 334.

NETSCHER, CONSTANTYN, born at The Hague, baptized Dec. 16, 1668, died there in 1722. Dutch school; portrait and genre painter, son and pupil of Caspar, whose style he imitated successfully. He excelled in portraits on a small scale, but his mythological subjects are dull and insipid. Works: Lady's Portrait (1678), Portraits of Jacob Jan de Bucker and his Wife (1694), do. of Prince Wilhelm III. of Orange and his Wife, Amsterdam Museum; William III. as Prince of Orange, Rotterdam Museum; Venus bewailing Adonis, Louvre, Paris; Portrait of a General, Berlin Museum; do. of a Savant (1689), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Lot and his Daughters, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Boy with Dog, Oldenburg Gallery; Portrait of a Prince, Schleissheim Gallery; Male Portrait, Turin Gallery; Æneas and Ascanius visiting Dido, Female Portrait, Historical Society, New York.—Immerzeel, ii. 261; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 544; Kramm, iv. 1193; Burger, Musées, ii. 258.

NETSCHER, THEODORUS, born at Bordeaux in 1661, died at Hulst in 1732. Dutch school; portrait and genre painter, son and pupil of Caspar Netscher; went early to France, where he spent twenty years, in favor at court; after his return he was appointed receiver at Hulst, whence he went to England as paymaster of the troops sent there in 1715, and remained ten years, much honoured at court and successful as a portrait painter. A male portrait by him (1720) is in the Haarlem Museum.—Immerzeel, ii. 261; Jal, 910; Kramm, iv. 1194; Van Gool, i. 172.

NEUBERT, LOUIS, born in Leipsic, Feb. 28, 1846. Landscape painter, pupil of Weimar Art School, under Max Schmidt, and Kalckreuth; took Böcklin for his model and settled in Munich, whence he visited Italy and France. Works: Italian Landscape, Schack Gallery, Munich; Evening Land