- 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.
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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
