NEROCCHIO DI BARTOLOMMEO DE' LANDI, born in Siena in 1447, died there in 1500. Sienese school; of moderate ability, he held a good position in his native city. His style varies but little from that of Vecchietta, except that the attitudes of his figures are more affected and unnatural. Most of his extant works are in the Siena Academy.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 68.
NESEAS (Neseus), painter, of Thasos,
about 424 B.C. Supposed by some to have
been the master of Zeuxis.—Pliny, xxxv. 36
[61]; Brunn, ii. 74.
NESSELTHALER, ANDREAS, born at
Langenisarhofen, Bavaria, in 1748, died at
Salzburg in 1821. History, portrait, and
landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy;
went in 1779 to Rome, where he assisted
Unterberger in copying Raphael's
loggia paintings for the Russian Court;
painted with Füger allegories in fresco in
the queen's palace at Caserta, near Naples,
and on his return to Rome had great success
with encaustic paintings, especially for
the Empress of Russia. In 1789 he settled
at Salzburg, whither he had been called by
Archbishop Jerome, and painted in oil, encaustic,
fresco, and water-colours for many
churches in and around that city. Works:
Alliance of Arminius against Rome; Roman
Embassy concluding Peace with the Almains;
Nativity; Death of St. Joseph; St. John the
Baptist; Ave Maria; Death of Cato, Abbey
of St. Florian, Upper Austria; Old Man
playing the Lyre, Vienna Museum.—Hormayr's
Archiv (1833), 120, 128; Wurzbach,
xx. 196.
NESSUS, painter, son of Habron; date
unknown.—Pliny, xxxv. 40 [146]; Brunn,
ii. 300.
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NETSCHER, CASPAR, born at Heidelberg
in 1639, died at The Hague, Jan. 15,
1684. Dutch school; genre and portrait
painter, pupil at Arnheim of Koster, then
at Deventer of Gerard Terburg, who taught
him to paint genre pictures. Later he
painted portraits, in which he excelled. At
the age of twenty he started on a journey
to Italy, but at Bordeaux he married Marie
Godin (1659) and returned to The Hague,
where he became
free of
the guild in
1663. Works:
Children
blowing Bubbles
(1670),
Maternal Instruction,
Lady at Spinning
Wheel
(1665), National
Gallery, London; Portrait of William
III., Buckingham Palace, ib.; The Toilet,
Portrait of Lady, Bridgewater Gallery, ib.;
Boy blowing Bubbles, Lord Ashburton, ib.;
Lady and Gentleman feeding Parrot and
Monkey, Mr. Hope, ib.; Mother and Child,
Young Lady and Old Woman, Mr. Baring,
ib.; Singing Lesson, Violoncello Lesson,
Louvre; Duke of Monmouth, Versailles Museum;
Artist with Wife and Daughter
(1665), Male Portrait (1677), Female do.
(1683), Hague Museum; Mother combing
Child's Hair, Portrait of Constantine Huygens
(1672), two other Male Portraits (one
1673), Amsterdam Museum; Female Portrait,
Haarlem Museum; Male Portrait
(1662), Female do. (1683), Family Scene
in a Garden (1667), Rotterdam Museum;
Male Portrait (1680), Aschaffenburg Gallery;
Death of Cleopatra (1673), Carlsruhe
Gallery; Time clipping Cupid's Wings, Portrait
of himself (1667), Mme. de Maintenon
(1670), Mme. de Montespan, Lady with
Violoncello, Lady at Toilet-Table (1667),
Two Women Masquerading (1668), Cassel
Gallery; Shepherd and Shepherdess (1683),
Brunswick Gallery; Boy with Brace of
Partridges (1677), Städel Gallery, Frankfort;
Musical Party (1665), Lady with Parrot
(1666), Bathsheba (1667), Boy playing
Flute (1668), Shepherd and Peasant Girl
(1681), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Lady and
Gentleman at Piano (1660), Physician feeling
Pulse of Lady (1664), Young Man writ-
