to Disciples (1828), Naumburg Cathedral; Madonna with St. Ann (1830); Boaz and Ruth (1833); Artist's Portrait (1814), Dresden Museum.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxiii. 201; Hagen ii. 91; N. Necrol. der D. (1835), 59; Raczynski, iii. 200.
NAHL, JOHANN AUGUST, the younger,
born at Clanne, near Berne, Jan. 7, 1752,
died in Cassel, Jan. 31, 1825. History and
landscape painter, son of sculptor of same
name; pupil at Cassel of Heinrich Tischbein,
the elder, at Strassburg of Tannesch
and Bemmel, and in Paris of Le Sueur;
went in 1774 to Rome, where for several
years he studied after the antique, then
copied Raphael and Guido Reni, and, having
returned to Cassel in 1781, and visited
England and Holland in 1782, lived again
in Italy in 1783-93. Through Hackert he
was led, at Naples, to landscape painting,
which he studied from nature and after the
great masters; after his return to Cassel he
became professor and in 1815 director of
the Academy. Works: Sacrifice to Venus;
Cupid drawing Thorn from Venus's Foot;
Ariadne in Naxos; Narcissus; Hector's
Farewell of Andromache; Achilles at Court
of Lycomedes; Ulysses blinding Polyphemus,
Cassel Gallery; Wallenstein consulting
the Stars, Stuttgart Museum; Venus and
Adonis; Ceres lighting the Torch to seek
Proserpine; Several Views of the Weissenstein
near Cassel. His son, Johann Wilhelm
(born in Cassel in 1804, died there, June 14,
1880), was a portrait and history painter,
pupil of his father and of Wiegand.—Allgem.
d. Biog., xxiii. 240; Goethe, Winckelmann,
ii. 149, 171; Meusel, No. 3, 299;
Nagler, x. 105; Kunst-Chronik, xv. 687.
NAIAD, Jean Jacques Henner, Luxembourg
Museum, Paris; canvas, H. 1 ft. 4
in. × 2 ft. Nude, lying at full length on her
back, under trees, on a grassy bank beside
water, with right knee raised and both arms
above the head. Engraved by A. Nargeot.—L'Artiste
(1882), i. 1.
NAIGEON, JEAN GUILLAUME ELZIDOR,
born in Paris, April 8, 1797, died
there, Dec. 31, 1867. Genre painter, pupil
of Gros and of the École des Beaux Arts.
He was the son of Jean Naigeon (1753-1832),
a pupil of David, painter, sculptor,
and director of the Paris picture galleries in
the time of Napoleon I., as well as first custodian
of the Luxembourg Museum (1812).
Jean Guillaume succeeded his father in this
office (1831), and in 1861 was appointed custodian
of the Egyptian Museum at the Louvre.
Won the 2d grand prix in 1827. Medal
of 2d class, 1833; L. of Honour, 1843.
Works: Magdalen in the Desert (1831);
Neapolitan praying for her Child (1833);
Neapolitan Nurse (1836); Vintage at Amalfi
(1841), formerly in Luxembourg Museum;
Adoration of the Magi (1845); Gleaners in
Vicinity of Naples, Vintage of Amalfi (1857);
Taking of Boulogne in 1511, Portraits of
Henri II. of
France, Philippe
d'Orléans, Archbishop
Huet,
Comtesse de Parabère,
Comte de Peluse, Versailles Museum.—Bellier,
ii. 146; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1832),
396; (1843), 207; Gaz. des B. Arts (1861),
ix. 256; Larousse.
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NAIVEU (Neveu), MATHYS, born at Leyden in 1647, died at Amsterdam about 1721. Dutch school; genre painter, pupil of Abraham Torenvliet and of Gerard Dou, whom he took for his model and imitated successfully. Settled at Amsterdam in 1677. Works: St. Jerome (1676), Amsterdam Museum; do. (1695), Moltke Collection, Copenhagen; Captains of the Undertakers' Guild at Leyden (1677); Works of Mercy, Leyden Museum; The Invalid, New York Museum.—Kramm, iv. 1195.
NAKKEN, WILLEM CAREL, born at
The Hague, April 9, 1835. Landscape and
animal painter, pupil of A. F. Dona. Medal
at Philadelphia, 1876. Works: At Harvest
(1874); Normandy Pack-Horses in Winter
(1875), Amsterdam Museum; Men loading
Wagon by a Quarry, Rotterdam Museum;
Étalon Normand, Inn Stable, Paris Exposi-
