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NEWMAN in the S. Kensington schools, London. His professional life has been spent in Baltimore and Pittsburgh ; principal of Women's School of Design, Pittsburgh, since 1870. Works : Smithy (1873); Basket of Grapes, In the Cottage Window (1878) ; Country Musician, The Binder Wheat-Field in Har- vest (1879) ; Hillside, Labourer (1880) ; In the Barn, In the Sugar-Camp (1881); Husk- ing Corn in the Field, Woods in Winter (1882) ; Grapes, From the East and West (1883). NEWMAN, HENRY R., contemporary. Lives in Florence. His architectural, land- scape, and flower pieces in water-colour have been specially commended by Ruskin. Ex- hibited in 1878, Study of Pink and White Oleanders, Grapes and Olives, Architectural Study, and Flowers ; Buildings in Florence, Lord Spencer ; Giotto's Campanile, Mercato Vecchio, Florence, Mrs. Brown, Providence. NEWTON, GILBERT STUART, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sept. 2, 1795, died at Chelsea, Eng., Aug. 5, 1835. Sou of a royalist officer driven from Boston when Washing- /* ton occupied it on the death of his father his mother returned (1803) to Boston, where he had some instruction from his uncle, Gilbert Stuart. In 1817 he went to Italy and to Paris, where he met Charles Robert Leslie, and, returning with him to London, became a student at the Royal Academy, and was soon recognized as an agreeable subject painter. Elected an A.R. A. in 1828, and R.A. in 1832, in which year he revisited America and married. On his return, his mind became so seriously af- fected that he had to be taken to a pri- vate asylum at Chelsea, where he died. Works : Yorick and the Grisette, The Window, National Gallery, London ; Cap- tain Machmth (1826), Vicar of Wakefield rec- onciling his Wife to Olivia (1828), Bowood House ; Shijlock and Jessica (1830) ; Lear and Cordelia, Portia and Bassauio (1831) ; Lute-Player, Historical Society, New York ; Importunate Author, E. N. Perkins, Boston. Dunlap ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole anglaise ; Art Journal (1864), 13 ; Sandby, ii. 148 ; Red- grave. NEYTS (Nyts), GILLIS (Egidius), born in Ghent, baptized there, April 4, 1023, died in 1G8C or 1687. Flemish school ; landscape painter, pupil of Lucas van Uden ; entered the guild in 1G47-48. Works : Landscapes with Figures (2, 1667, 1669), [Tlu'-odore van Lerius, Antwerp ; Mountain- ous Landscape with Ruins, do. with Riders and Beggar (1G81), Dresden Gallery ; River Landscape (1641), Stockholm Museum. Rooses (Reber), 416 ; Van den Branden, 1073 ; Van Lerius, Biog., ii. 61. NIAGARA, Frederic Edwin Church, Cor- coran Gallery, Washington ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 6 in. x 7 ft. 5 in. Niagara Falls from the British Side. Painted in 1857 ; exhibited throughout United States and Europe ; Ex- position universelle, Paris, 1867, medal of 2d class ; bought by John Taylor Johnston ; at his sale (1876), to Corcoran Gallery, $12,- 500. Mr. Church's Niagara from the Ameri- can Side is owned by Mrs. A. T. Stewart, New York ; his Niagara from under the Fall, by Mrs. M. O. Roberts, New York. By George Inness, Roswell Smith, New York ; canvas, H. 4 ft. 6 in. x 6 ft. Not an exact transcript of the falls, but an attempt 1 to present an idea of the impression pro- duced on the artist's mind by the first sight 1 of the cataract from a point on Goat Island. Painted in 1873-74 ; American Art Associa- tion, 1874. Never engraved. Six slight sketches in water-colours, Mr. Bartell. NIBELUNGEN-LIED, Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld, Royal Palace, Munich. Sc- ries of frescos on walls and ceilings of sev- eral halls. Painted in 1830-51. 1. Entrance Hall. Over door : The lau- rel-crowned poet of the lay, pen in hand, 343