NASELLI ough European education, and exhibited several flower-pieces at the first Ottoman Salon at Constantinople in 1881. Kunst- Chronik, xvi. 42. NASELLI, FRANCESCO, born at Fer- rara about 1570, died there in 1G30. Lom- bard school, of noble family ; pupil of Ippo- lito Mazzuoli or of Bastaruolo ; opened a school at Ferrara and removed to Bologna, where he studied the works of the Carracci and their disciples. Painted in competition with Bonoue and Giuseppe Scarsella. Lanzi, iii. 218 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole ferraraise. NASINI, GIUSEPPE NICOLA, born at Castel del Piano, Jan. 25, 1(557, died in Si- ena, July 3, 1736. Sienese school ; history painter, pupil of his father, Francesco Nasi- ni, and in Home of Ciro Ferri, who sent him to Florence to copy the paintings of Pietro da Cortona. There the Grand Duke fur- nished him with the means to continue his studies in Rome. All writers on art of that period unite in the most enthusiastic eulo- gies of the works of this master, who seems now entirely forgotten. His masterpiece, the Novissimi, or Four Last Stages of Man, completed in 151)4, grand compositions of enormous size, are still in the church of San Francesco, at Siena, to which city they were presented by Ferdinand III. of Tuscany, in 1795. Acad. (1883), 52, 219. NASMYTH, PATRICK, born in Edin- burgh, Jan. 7, 1787, died at Lambeth, Aug. 17, 1831. Son and pupil of Alexander Na- smyth (1758-1840), a mediocre landscape painter ; went to London in 1807, and two years later exhibited his first picture in the Royal Academy. Painted simple landscapes, with much detail in execution, in imitation of the Dutch school, but with great force. Works : View in Hampshire, Thomas Bar- ing ; Cottage, Angler's Nook, National Gal- lery, London. Redgrave ; Ch. Blanc, F.cole anglaise. NASON, PIETER, born probably at The Hague, died after 1G80. Dutch school ; portrait and still-life painter, supposed pu- pil of Jan van Ravesteyn ; master of Hague -f . T' ^ guild in 1030, one of the founders of the new guild in 1656 ; long employed at the court of the Great Elector in Berlin. A manly style and decided individuality char- acterize his portraits, which are excellently drawn and of careful execution. Works : Female Portrait (1670), Haarlem Museum ; Portrait of WillemFrederik of Nassau (1662), Hague Museum ; Two Portraits, Rotterdam Museum ; Portrait of Great Elector (1667), Charlottenburg Castle ; Male Portrait (1668), Still Life with costly Vessels, Berlin Muse- um ; Portrait of Charles H. ; Two Portraits (1658), ' MS Moltke Col- lection, Co- penhagen ; Portrait of a Prince of Orange, New York Museum. Kugler (Crowe), ii. 362 ; Kramm, iv. 1188 ; Burger, Musees, i. '221. NATIVITY, Annibale Carracci, Louvre ; canvas, H. 3 ft, 4 in. x 2 ft. 9 in. The Child lying in the manger adored by the Virgin, St. Joseph, angels, and shepherds kneeling ; above, the open heavens disclose a choir of angels and cherubim. Collection of Louis XIV.; bought in 1685 for 2,800 livres. En- graved by Forster ; P. S. Bartoli. Villot, Cat, Louvre ; Musoe royal, ii. ; Laudou, Mu- soe, ii. PL 7. By Lodovico Carracci, Louvre ; copper, H. 1 ft. 3 in. x 1 ft. 8 in. The Virgin, kneel- ing, with arms crossed, contemplates Jesus, who lies on the ground on a cloth held by St. Joseph ; two shepherds, one with a child upon his shoulders, approach ; behind, an angel conducts another shepherd ; at left, two angels stand beside a cow and an ass, of which only the Leads are seen ; above, angels upon clouds scatter flowers. Collec- tion of Louis XP7.; bought in 1685. Vil- lot, Cat. Louvre ; Landon, Musee, xii. PI. 52. By Corrcygio. See La Nolle. By Francesco Francia, Bologna Gallery ; wood, figures life-size ; dated 1498. The Virgin, kneeling, with the Child on the ground before her, in front of a ruined
