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 *bach. Works: Going to School; Reception of the Parson at a Wedding; Toast to Bridal Pair; Peasant Wedding in Upper Austria; St. Nicholas' Eve; Parson's Anniversary; Saying Grace; Grandfather's Room; A Modern Helen; Blind-Man's-Buff; Morning on Norwegian Coast (1885); Poacher (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Müller, 394.

NIEMEYER, JOHN H., born in Bremen, Germany, in 1839. Portrait and genre painter, pupil in Paris of the École des Beaux Arts under Gérôme and Yvon, and of Jacquesson de la Chevreuse; studied also under Cornu four years. Two medals, Imperial School of Design, Paris. Painted in New York until appointed professor of drawing in School of Fine Arts, Yale College. Works: Guttenberg inventing Movable Type (1869); Where, Why? (1880); Sancta Simplicitas (1882); Lilith tempting Eve (1886).

NIEPER, LUDWIG, born at Brunswick, July 12, 1826. History painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Bendemann, spent considerable time in Rome, and in 1871 became director of Leipsic Academy. Works: Paul's Departure from Ephesus (1864); Christ Crucified; Peter and Paul; Wisdom and Justice.—Kunst-Chronik, ix. 715; Müller, 394; Illustr. Zeitg. (1876), ii. 250.

NIESSEN, JOHANNES, born in Cologne in 1821. History painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy; went in 1847 to Paris, visited Florence and Rome, and in 1850 returned to Düsseldorf, whence he went to Weimar in 1859 as professor in the Art School. In 1866 he settled in Cologne, where he is professor and conservator of the Museum. Member of Vienna Academy. Works: Irene going to meet her Death; Christ in Agony; Christ the Good Shepherd; John Baptist before Herod; King Lear and his Daughters; Portrait of the Painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1854), Düsseldorf Gallery.—D. Kunstbl. (1857), 10; Merlo, 304; Müller, 394; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 43; Wiegmann, 202.

NIEULANDT, ADRIAEN VAN, the younger, born in Amsterdam in 1590, died after 1657. Dutch school; pupil in Amsterdam of Pieter Isacx and Frans Badens. Painted biblical and mythological scenes, and landscapes with small figures. Works: Procession of Lepers (1633), City Hall, Amsterdam; From the Carnival in Antwerp, Brussels Museum; Replica, Madrid Museum; Toilet of Diana (1641), Diana and Callisto (1654), Landscape with Hunters (1640), Kitchen Scene (1616), Brunswick Gallery; Jacob's Dream (1650), Darmstadt Gallery; Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1655), Prophet Elijah, Triumph of Bacchus, Copenhagen Gallery; Rape of Proserpine, do. of Europa (1649), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Birds' Concert in a Landscape, Oldenburg Gallery.—Kramm, iv. 1197; vii. 113; Rooses (Reber), 408; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 209.

NIEULANT (Nieuwelandt), WILLEM VAN, born in Antwerp in 1584, died in Amsterdam in 1635. Flemish school; first taught in 1599 by Jacob Savery in Amsterdam, where he had come when four years of age; went in 1602 to Rome, where he worked three years under Paul Bril. Entered guild of Antwerp in 1606; returned to Amsterdam after Sept. 8, 1628. Natural and agreeable colouring, though somewhat too grey in tone. Also an engraver and dramatic poet. Works: Campo Vaccino (1611), Antwerp Museum; do. (1612), Vienna Museum; Roman Cattle Market (1609), Copenhagen Gallery.—Kramm, iv. 1198; Rooses (Reber), 407; Michiels, vi. 181; Van den Branden, 636.

NIGHT, FLIGHT OF, William M. Hunt, Capitol, Albany, N. Y.; mural painting, demilune, H. 15 ft. × 45 ft. The Queen of Night, seated in her chariot—the crescent moon—is drawn by three plunging horses, one white, one red, one black, the head of the outermost one held by a swarthy guide, floating at left; below the goddess, right, is the sleeping recumbent figure of a mother with her child upon her breast, with a