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.
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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.
