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 in the S. Kensington schools, London. His professional life has been spent in Baltimore and Pittsburgh; principal of Women's School of Design, Pittsburgh, since 1870. Works: Smithy (1873); Basket of Grapes, In the Cottage Window (1878); Country Musician, The Binder—Wheat-Field in Harvest (1879); Hillside, Labourer (1880); In the Barn, In the Sugar-Camp (1881); Husking Corn in the Field, Woods in Winter (1882); Grapes, From the East and West (1883).

NEWMAN, HENRY R., contemporary. Lives in Florence. His architectural, landscape, and flower pieces in water-colour have been specially commended by Ruskin. Exhibited in 1878, Study of Pink and White Oleanders, Grapes and Olives, Architectural Study, and Flowers; Buildings in Florence, Lord Spencer; Giotto's Campanile, Mercato Vecchio, Florence, Mrs. Brown, Providence.

NEWTON, GILBERT STUART, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sept. 2, 1795, died at Chelsea, Eng., Aug. 5, 1835. Son of a royalist officer driven from Boston when Washington occupied it; on the death of his father his mother returned (1803) to Boston, where he had some instruction from his uncle, Gilbert Stuart. In 1817 he went to Italy and to Paris, where he met Charles Robert Leslie, and, returning with him to London, became a student at the Royal Academy, and was soon recognized as an agreeable subject painter. Elected an A.R.A. in 1828, and R.A. in 1832, in which year he revisited America and married. On his return, his mind became so seriously affected that he had to be taken to a private asylum at Chelsea, where he died. Works: Yorick and the Grisette, The Window, National Gallery, London; Captain Macheath (1826), Vicar of Wakefield reconciling his Wife to Olivia (1828), Bowood House; Shylock and Jessica (1830); Lear and Cordelia, Portia and Bassanio (1831); Lute-Player, Historical Society, New York; Importunate Author, E. N. Perkins, Boston.—Dunlap; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Art Journal (1864), 13; Sandby, ii. 148; Redgrave.

NEYTS (Nyts), GILLIS (Egidius), born in Ghent, baptized there, April 4, 1623, died in 1686 or 1687. Flemish school; landscape painter, pupil of Lucas van Uden; entered the guild in 1647-48. Works: Landscapes with Figures (2, 1667, 1669), Théodore van Lerius, Antwerp; Mountainous Landscape with Ruins, do. with Riders and Beggar (1681), Dresden Gallery; River Landscape (1641), Stockholm Museum.—Rooses (Reber), 416; Van den Branden, 1073; Van Lerius, Biog., ii. 61.

NIAGARA, Frederic Edwin Church, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; canvas, H. 3 ft. 6 in. × 7 ft. 5 in. Niagara Falls from the British Side. Painted in 1857; exhibited throughout United States and Europe; Exposition universelle, Paris, 1867, medal of 2d class; bought by John Taylor Johnston; at his sale (1876), to Corcoran Gallery, $12,500. Mr. Church's Niagara from the American Side is owned by Mrs. A. T. Stewart, New York; his Niagara from under the Fall, by Mrs. M. O. Roberts, New York.

By George Inness, Roswell Smith, New York; canvas, H. 4 ft. 6 in. × 6 ft. Not an exact transcript of the falls, but an attempt to present an idea of the impression produced on the artist's mind by the first sight of the cataract from a point on Goat Island. Painted in 1873-74; American Art Association, 1874. Never engraved. Six slight sketches in water-colours, Mr. Bartell.

NIBELUNGEN-LIED, Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld, Royal Palace, Munich. Series of frescos on walls and ceilings of several halls. Painted in 1830-51.

1. Entrance Hall. Over door: The laurel-crowned poet of the lay, pen in hand,