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Academies. Works: View of Ghent in Winter (1838), Church and Abbey of St. Peter at Ghent, Ghent Museum; St. Michael's Church, ib. (1825), De Poort van Sas of Ghent, ib. (1827), Amsterdam Museum; Architecture, Cologne Museum; Sunset, Two Winter Landscapes, Chapel in St. Bavon, Ghent. His brother, Jan Baptist, has acquired reputation as a painter of city views: City Hall at Louvain (1820); Subterranean Corridor in Old Castle at Ghent (1822); View at St. Rambout's Gate (1823); City Hall at Ghent (1823); Gothic House in Mechlin (1826); Old Entrance to Citadel of Ghent; Old Courtray Gate at Ghent (1832).—Biog. nat. de Belgique, v. 596; Immerzeel, ii. 267; Kramm, iv. 1213.



NOTERMAN, EMANUEL, born at Oudenaerde in April, 1808, died in 1863. Genre painter, pupil of Ghent Academy, in 1827-30 of Maes-Canini, and in 1835 at Antwerp of Peter Kremer. Works: Fortune-Teller (1835); Young Girls preparing to celebrate Shrovetide (1836); Kirmess (1837); Old-Clothes Dealer (1840); Man shearing Dog (1841); St. Nicholas Festival; Children gathering Wood; Poachers.—Immerzeel, ii. 269; Nagler, Mon., ii. 637.


NOTTE, LA (The Night), Correggio, Dresden Gallery; wood, H. 8 ft. 7 in. × 6 ft. 2 in. Adoration of the Shepherds: The newly born Child, from whom all the light proceeds, lies in the manger, held in the arms of Mary, who bends over him, while an old and a young shepherd and a young woman regard him with wonder; above, winged angels flying downward; in background, Joseph, the ass, and shepherds sleeping. Formerly called Madonna di Reggio. Ordered in 1522 by Alberto Pratonero for his family chapel in S. Prospero, Reggio, but not placed there until 1530; taken secretly from the church about 1640 and delivered to Francesco I., Duke of Modena; sold by Francesco III. to Augustus III., Elector of Saxony and King of Poland; carried to Dresden in 1745-46. Cleaned and restored by Palmaroli in 1827 and by Schirmer in 1858. Engraved by Boetius, Mitelli, Eschini, Vincent, Piali, and P. L. Surugue.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 117, 127; Pungileoni, Mem., i. 36; ii. 180; Isacchi, Relationi, etc., della Madonna di Reggio (Reggio, 1619); Meyer, Correggio, 307, 475; Künst. Lex., i.; Gal. roy. de Dresde, ii. Pl. 1; Landon, Œuvres, viii. Pl. 1; Klas. der Malerei, i. Pl. 51; F. Kugler, Kunstblatt (1838), 231.


NOTTI, GHERARDO DALLE. See Honthorst.


NOVOPACKY, JAN, born at Nechanitz, Bohemia, in 1821. Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Thomas Ender and Steinfeld; spent several years in Rome, whence he returned in 1854 and became one of the favourite landscape painters in Vienna. Works: Arena and Porta d'Ercole at Pola, Old Harbour at Spalato (1853); View in Pontine Swamps, In the Campagna (1854); Frascati near Rome; Baden near Vienna; Villa d'Este; Well near Albano, Ariccia near Rome (1855); Castle Liechtenstein, Baiæ near Naples (1858); Adige Valley near Botzen (1859); Return Home (1860); View in Styrian Alps (1862); Spring Morning; Palermo; Amalfi; Noon near Terracina; Rape of Hylas (1864); Marina grande da Sorrento (1865); Monks chanting Psalms; Amphitheatre at Pola; Lago di Garda; Landscape with Cemetery, Vienna Museum; National Costumes; View at Terracina (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—D. Kunstbl. (1854), 15, 276; (1855), 51; (1857), 343; Müller, 397; Wurzbach, xx. 412.


NOZAL, ALEXANDRE, born in Paris; contemporary. Landscape painter, pupil of Luminais. Medals: 3d class, 1882; 2d class, 1883. Works: Pond of Brenne (1876); Storm Clouds (1877); Autumn in Berry (1878); Avenue in Park of Saint-Cloud in