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 NUVOLONE, PANFILO, born at Cremona, latter part of 16th century, died in 1661. Lombard school; one of the best pupils of Giovanni Battista Trotti (Malosso), whom he at first imitated, but afterwards adopted a more solid style. Among his works are: Rich Man and Lazarus, Church of Monastery of SS. Domenico and Lazzaro, Milan; Assumption, cupola of S. M. della Passione, Milan; Vision of St. Ursula, Carlsruhe Gallery.—Lanzi, ii. 448.

NUYEN, WYNAND JAN JOSEPH, born at The Hague, March 4, 1813, died there, June 2, 1839. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Schelfhout. Member of Amsterdam Academy. His coast, harbour, and city views are supplied with well-drawn figures. Works: Ruin (1836), Museum, Amsterdam; Fishmarket, Museum Fodor, ib.; River Landscape at Sunset, Rotterdam Museum; View in Holland, August Belmont, New York.—Immerzeel, ii. 270; Kramm, iv. 1214.

NUZI, ALLEGRETTO. See Allegretto Nuzi.

NUZZI, MARIO, called Mario da' Fiori, born at Penna (or Perma?), Naples, according to some in Rome, in 1603, died in Rome in 1673. Roman school; flower and fruit painter, pupil of Tommaso Salini; in Rome his pictures were held in the highest estimation, and purchased at great prices; but, from a vicious mode in the preparation of his colours, they soon lost their original freshness and depreciated in value. Member of Academy of San Luca, 1657. Works: Flower- and Fruit-Pieces in Suermondt Museum, Aix-la-Chapelle; Darmstadt (2) and Madrid (8) Museums; Artist's portrait, Uffizi, Florence.—Lanzi (Roscoe), i. 490; Siret (1884), ii. 105; Goethe, Winckelmann, ii. 29.

NYDIA, Gabriel Max, private gallery. Nydia, the blind girl of Pompeii, from Bulwer's "Last Days of Pompeii." Full length, standing upon the steps of a portico, in front of two columns which support an awning; her long white robe, which shows her sandalled feet in front, trails on the marble behind her, and she holds a basket of flowers in her hands.

NYMEGEN, DIONYS VAN, born at Rotterdam in 1705, died there, Aug. 28, 1798. Dutch school; genre, portrait, and landscape painter, son and pupil of Elias van Nymegen (flower painter, 1667-1755). Works: Portraits of Man and Wife (1733), Rotterdam Museum, where is also a Swiss Landscape by his son and pupil Gerard (1735-1808), who besides painted portraits.

NYMPH AND BACCHUS, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Luxembourg Museum, Paris; canvas, H. 6 ft. 2 in. × 4 ft. 6 in. A nymph, nude, seated upon a bank in a landscape, is holding aloft a bow and arrow in one hand and a dead bird in the other, for which the young Bacchus, standing and reclining backward on her knees, is reaching; in the shrubbery, right, a satyr smiling.

NYMPH WITH YOUNG BACCHUS, Sir Joshua Reynolds, I. Bentley, London; canvas. Portrait of Mrs. Hartley, the actress, and her infant son. Mrs. Hartley was going to America, when the vessel in which she sailed was wrecked near the coast; her body, washed on shore, had clinging to it the same child represented in Reynolds' picture. Painted in 1773; bought by Lord Carysfort; at his sale, by Mr. Bentley. Repetition, Marchioness of Thomond's sale (1821), to Colonel F. G. Howard, 290 guineas.—Athenæum, April, 1860, 579.

NYMPHS AND SATYR, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Hoffman House, New York; canvas, H. 10 ft. × 5 ft. Four life-size nymphs, nude, have caught a satyr in the woods and are pulling him unwillingly into the water by the arms, the ears, and the horns; in background, a group of nymphs beside the pool. Salon, 1873; bought by John Wolfe, of New York.—Art Treasures of America, i. 54.