King of the Phæacians and friend of Ulysses (Odyssey, vi. 16, etc.), playing at ball with her maidens on a green sward near the sea-*shore. Companion to Atalanta's Race, and with it forming two of four subjects of similar size and shape executed by Mr. Poynter for Lord Wharncliffe.
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NAVARRETE, JUAN FERNANDEZ,
called El Mudo
(The Dumb),
born at Logroño
about 1526,
died in Toledo,
March 28, 1579.
Spanish school.
When three
years old became
deaf from
illness and never learned to speak. Studied
the rudiments of art in the Convent of La
Estrella, then went to Italy and became a
disciple of Titian. After an absence of twenty
years returned with a great reputation,
was made painter to the king in 1568, and
executed nineteen religious works in the Escorial,
where they still remain. Other works:
Baptism of Christ, St. Peter, St. Paul, Madrid
Museum; St. John in Prison, Hermitage,
St. Petersburg; Holy Family, Weimar
Museum; Lady's Portrait, Darmstadt Museum.—Viardot,
Peintres de l'Espagne, 37;
Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Madrazo, 490;
Washburn, 51.
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NAVEZ, FRANÇOIS JOSEPH, born at
Charleroi, Nov. 16,
1787, died in Brussels,
Oct. 12, 1869.
History, genre, and
portrait painter, pupil
of Isidore François,
and of Brussels
Academy, where he
had won all the prizes,
when, in 1813, he
went to Paris to study
under David, whom he followed into exile.
In 1817-22 he was in Rome, and in 1839
became director of the Brussels Academy.
Order of Lion, 1825; Order of Leopold,
1836; Bavarian Order of Michael,
1851; Officer, 1855; Commander, 1859;
Member of Paris, Hague, Amsterdam, Antwerp,
Ghent, and Bruges Academies.
Works: Virgil reading to Augustus and Octavia
the Sixth Book of the Æneid (1811),
The Nymph Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
(1829), Ghent Museum; Hagar in the Desert;
Elijah raising the Child of the Shunamite
Woman (1821), Meeting of Rebekah and
Isaac (1826), Museum, Amsterdam; Hagar
in the Desert, Museum Fodor, ib.; Hermit;
Fortune-Teller among Italian Robbers; Incredulity
of Thomas; Marriage of the Virgin;
Holy Family; Episode from Massacre
of Innocents; St. Cecilia; Athalia and Joash
(1834); Education of the Virgin; Infant
Christ Asleep; Christ and the Adulteress;
Vert-Vert's arrival at Nantes (1836); Nathan
admonishing David (1839); Raising of Lazarus
(1842); Sick Child (1844), National
Gallery, Berlin; Spinning Women of Fondi
(1845), New Pinakothek, Munich; Holy
Family (1851), Artist's portrait, Antwerp
Museum; Judgment
of Solomon;
Christ and the Rich
Man.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1836), 136; (1837),
174; D. Kunstbl. (1851), 393; (1855), 360;
Immerzeel, ii. 255; Kramm, iv. 1189; Nagler,
x. 152; Raczynski, iii. 439.
NAVLET, VICTOR, born at Châlons-sur-Marne,
died in Paris, Feb. 25, 1886. Landscape
and interior painter, pupil of his
father. Medal, 1867. Works: View of
Paris (1852), do. (1853), Versailles Museum;
Interior of Notre-Dame de Paris (1857);
Cour Napoléon (1859), New Louvre, Paris;
Sleeping Chamber of Louis XIV. at Versailles,
Interior of La Madeleine in Paris
(1863); Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre
(1864); Galerie de Henri II. at Fontainebleau
(1865), Forum Romanum (1869), Châlons-sur-Marne
Museum; Interior in the
Vatican (1867), Bordeaux Museum; do.
(1868, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1878); Sistine
Chapel in Rome (1870); Room in Mu-
