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NUVOLOXE NUVOLONE, PAXFILO, born at Cremo- na, 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 ; As- sumption, cupola of S. M. della Passione, Milan ; Vision of St. Ursula, Carlsruhe Gal- lery. Lanzi, ii. 448. NUYEN, WYNAXD JAN JOSEPH, bom at The Hague, March 4, 1813, died there, June 2, 1839. Land- scape and marine painter, pupil o f Schelfhout. Mem- ber of Amsterdam A c a d e in y. His coast, harbour, and city views are sup- plied with well-drawn figures. Works: Ruin (1830), Museum, Amsterdam ; Fishmarket, Museum Fodor, ib. ; River Landscape at Sunset, Rotterdam Museum ; View in Hol- land, August Belmont, New York. Immer- zeel, ii. 270 ; Kramm, iv. 1214. NUZI, ALLEGRETTO. See Allajrelto Nuzi. NUZZI, MARIO, called Mario da' Fiori, born at Penua (or Perma?), Naples, accord- ing to some in Rome, in 1003, died in Rome in 1673. Roman school ; flower and fruit painter, pupil of Tommaso Saliui ; in Rome his pictures were held in the highest estima- tion, and purchased at great prices ; but, from a vicious mode in the preparation of his colours, they soon lost their original v D freshness and depreciated in value. Mem- ber of Academy of San Luca, 1057. Works : Flower- and Fruit-Pieces in Suermondt Mu- seum, Aix-la-Chapelle ; Darmstadt (2) and Madrid (8) Museums ; Artist's portrait, Uf- fizi, Florence. Lanzi (Roscoe), i. 490 ; Siret (1884), ii. 105 ; Goethe, Wiuckelmann, ii. 29. NYDIA, Gabriel Max, private gallery. Nydia, the blind girl of Pompeii, from Bul- | wer's " Last Days of Pompeii." Full length, I standing upon the steps of a portico, in front of two columns which support an awn- ing ; her long white robe, which shows her sandalled feet in front, trails on the marble behind her, and she holds a basket of flow- ers in her hands. NYMEGEN, DIONYS VAN, born at Rot- terdam in 1705, died there, Aug. 28, 1798. j Dutch school ; genre, portrait, and land- scape painter, son and pupil of Elias van Nymegen (flower painter, 1607 - 1755). Works : Portraits of Man and Wife (1733), Rotterdam Museum, where is also a Swiss Landscape by his sou and pupil Gerard (1735-1808), who besides painted portraits. NYMPH AND BACCHUS, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Luxembourg Museum, Paris; can- vas, H. 6 ft. 2 in. x 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 back- ward on her knees, is reaching; in the shrubberv, right, a satyr smiling. NYMPH WITH YOUNG BACCHUS, Sir Joshua Reynolds, I. Bentley, London ; can- vas. Portrait of Mrs. Hartley, the actress, and her infant sou. 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 Thoinond's sale (1821), to Colonel F. G. Howard, 290 guin- eas. Athenaeum, April, 1860, 579. NYMPHS AND SATYR, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Hoffman House, New York ; canvas, H. 10 ft. x 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.