NAZON see de Cluny (1877) ; Staircase of Opera House in Paris (1881) ; Room in Palace of the Senate (1882); do. (1883); Gallery of Busts, ib. (1884) ; Library of Chamber of Deputies (1885) ; View of Chateau d'Ecou- en, Interior in same, Palais de la Legion d'Houneur, Paris. Bellier, ii. 154; Chro- nique des Arts (1886), 85. NAZON, (FRANCOIS) HENRI, born at Realmont (Tarn), Dec. 25, 1821. Land- scape painter, pupil of Gleyre, though he paints in Corot's style. Medals in 1864, 18G6. Works : Border of the Tarn ; do. of the Seine ; Rocks at Caylus ; Banks of the Aveyron in Autumn (1863), Luxembourg Museum. Bellier, ii. 154 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 508 ; Meyer, Gesch., 788. NEAGLE, JOHN, born in Boston in 1799, died in 1865. Portrait painter, self- ' taught. Painted in Philadelphia, Lexing- ton, Ky., and New Orleans. Works : Pat- rick Lyon the Blacksmith (1826), and por- trait of Gilbert Stuart, Athenseum, Boston ; Portraits of Henry Clay, Union League Club, Philadelphia ; Washington, Independence Hall, ib. ; Pat Lyon at the Forge, and por- trait of Henry Cary, Pennsylvania Academy, ib. NEAL, DAVID, born at Lowell, Mass., in 1837. History paint- er ; after working as a wood-engraver he went to Munich in 1861, and became a pupil of the Royal Bavarian Academy ; studied under his father-in-law, the Chevalier Ainmuller, in 1862, and under Piloty in 1869-76. Has lived and painted many years in Munich. Exhibits in Lou- don, Munich, and New York. Great medal, Royal Bavarian Academy, 1876. Visited New York in 1884. Works : Chapel of the Kings at Westminster (F. Cutting, Bos- ton) ; St. Mark's Venice (18G9), S. Nicker- son, Chicago ; Return from the Chase (1870), John Bloodgood, New York ; James Watt (1874), Sir B. S. Phillips, London ; Burgo- master ; First Meeting of Mary Stuart and Rizzio (1876), D. O. Mills, New York ; Oli- ver Cromwell visits Milton (1884), Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland. Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 354. NEALCES or NEOCLES, Greek painter, of Sicyon, about 250 B.C. He ranks among the best painters of the Neo-Sicyonic school. Pliny mentions (xxxv. [138]) a Venus by him, also a Battle on the Nile between the Persians and the Egyptians. Plutarch re- j lates (Arat. 13) how he saved a picture by Melanthius, about to be destroyed by Ara- tus, by painting out the figure of Aristratus the tyrant. R.-R., Schorn, 367 ; Brunu, ii. 290. NEAPOLI, FRANCISCO. See Arojio, Pablo de. NEARCHUS or NICCEARCHUS, painter, father of Arixtaretn, date and country un- known. Pliny says (xxxv. 40 [141J) he painted a Venus attended by Cupids and Graces, and a Repentant Hercules. Brunn, ii. 300. NECK, JOHAN VAN, born at Naarden in 1636, died in Amsterdam in 1714. Dutch school ; history and portrait painter, pupil of Jacob Backer. Works : Anatomical Les- son (1683), Museum, Amsterdam ; Simeon in the Temple, Catholic Church, ib. ; do., Moltke Collec- /I / */-> / tion, Copenha- / U JJ^jT /JO gen ; Image of ^ * Pan by a Grove, Dresden Gallery ; Portrait, Historical Society, New York. Immerzeel, ii. 257 ; Kramm, iv. 1190. NEEFFS (Neefs, Neffs, Ncfs), PEETER, the elder, born probably in Antwerp be- tween 1578 and 1582, died there after Feb. 26, 1656. Flemish school ; unrivalled paint- er of church interiors ; best pupil of Hen- drik van Steenwyck, the elder ; entered the Antwerp Guild in 1609. The figures in his pictures generally by Frans Francken III., Tcniers, Brueghel, and Van Thuldeu. This painter had great knowledge of aerial and 333
