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hollandaise; Burger, Musées, ii. 142, 215; Dohme, 1ii.; Immerzeel, ii. 257; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 465; Kramm, iv. 1191; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 376; Van Spaan, History of Rotterdam; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x. 74; xiv. 119.
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NEER, EGLON HENDRIK VAN DER,
born in Amsterdam
in 1643, died in
Düsseldorf, May 3,
1703. Dutch school;
genre, portrait, and
landscape painter,
son of, and first instructed
by preceding,
then pupil of
Jakob van Loo; his
favourite and most
successful subjects were elegantly attired
ladies engaged in some domestic avocation,
in the style of Netscher and Mieris. He
went to France in 1663, later to Rotterdam,
Amsterdam, Brussels, and (1687) to the
court of the Elector of the Palatinate, to
whom, as well as to Charles II. of Spain, he
was court painter. Occasionally he painted
historical and mythological subjects, and
later also landscapes, after Elsheimer.
Works: Gentleman and Lady performing
Music, Death of Cleopatra, Buckingham
Palace; Boy beating Drum, Bridgewater
Gallery; Couple at Repast, Mr. Hope's Collection;
Intruding Cavalier, Mr. Heusch's
Collection, London; Fishmonger, Landscape,
Louvre; Tobias with the Angel (1690),
Amsterdam Museum; do. (1685), Berlin
Museum; Guitar-Player (1669), Rotterdam
Museum; Conversation-piece, Aschaffenburg
Gallery; Rocky Landscape, Augsburg Gallery;
Two Boys playing with Bird, Brunswick
Museum; Young Lady with Dog, Lute-Player
(1677), Boy with Bird Cage, Tobias
with Archangel Raphael (copy after Elsheimer),
Carlsruhe Gallery; Conversation in a
Garden, Lady playing Guitar, Copenhagen
Gallery; Lady tuning Zither, Dresden Museum;
Tuning the Lute (1678), Lady Fainting
(1680), Landscape with Cattle, Old Pinakothek,
Munich; Young Cavalier seated
and peeling an Orange, Mountainous Landscape,
Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Landscape
with Shepherd and Girl (1698), four
others, Schleissheim Gallery; Children playing
(1679), Mountainous Landscapes (2,
1700), Schwerin Gallery; Lady at Luncheon
(1665), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna;
Esther before Ahasuerus (1696), Two Landscapes
(1697), Artist's portrait, Uffizi, Florence;
Attack of Cavalry, Madrid Museum.—Allgem.
d. Biog., xxiii. 365; Immerzeel ii.
258; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 412; Ch. Blanc,
École hollandaise; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 336.
NEFF, TIMOTHEUS ANDRIEVICH,
born at Korkulla, Esthland, in 1805, died
in St. Petersburg in 1877. History, genre,
and portrait painter, pupil in Dresden of
Hartmann; studied afterwards in Italy.
Works: Portraits of Emperor Nicholas and
Empress, Grand Duchess Helena (1837);
Grand Duchess Catharine (1851); Nymph
Bathing (1858), Nymphs in a Grotto (1859),
Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Last Supper,
The Holy Bishops, Chapel of Winter Palace,
ib.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1844), 44; D. Kunstbl.
(1851), 160; Raczynski, iii. 539.
NEGROPONTE. See Antonio da Negroponte.
NEHER, BERNHARD VON, born at
Biberach, Würtemberg, Jan. 16, 1806, died
at Stuttgart, Jan. 17, 1886. History painter,
first instructed by his father and by Friedrich
Müller (Maler Müller), then pupil in
Stuttgart of Dannecker and Hetsch, and
of the Munich Academy under Cornelius;
spent four years in Rome, visited Naples in
1832, and returned to Munich; in 1841-46
director of Leipsic Academy; became in
1846 professor, and in 1854-79 director of
