NICHOLAS, ST., GLORY OF, Lorenzo Lotto, S. M. del Carmine, Venice; canvas, life-size. SS. Nicholas, Lucy, and John Baptist float and kneel in the clouds; beneath, a landscape with figures on foot and St. George on horseback killing the dragon. Painted about 1529. Injured by restoration.—Vasari, ed. Mil., v. 250; Lomazzo, Idea, 139; C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 521.
NICIAS, Greek painter, Theban-Attic
school; pupil of Antidotus, first part of 4th
century B.C. He preferred large subjects,
thinking it waste skill and labour to paint
small objects, such as birds and flowers.
He excelled in aërial perspective and in
chiaro-oscuro; was famous for his female
figures, and very happy in his pictures of
dogs. Pliny says (xxxv. 20) he was the first
who used usta (burnt ceruse). Praxiteles
said that he prized most among his statues
those which had been coloured by Nicias.
Among his noted pictures were a Necromantia,
or representation of the infernal regions
as described by Homer, which he declined
to sell to King Ptolemy for sixty talents,
because he preferred to give it to his native
city; Nemea seated on a Lion, placed in
the Curia at Rome by Augustus; Father
Liber, preserved in the Temple of Concord
at Rome; Hyacinthus, which Augustus carried
from Alexandria to Rome, and which
Tiberius dedicated in the Temple of Augustus;
Io, Andromeda, Calypso, and Alexander,
in the Portico of Pompey; Danaë,
and Calypso seated.—Pliny, xxxv. 40 [131,
133]; Paus., iii. 29, 15; vii. 22, 6; Demet.
Phal. Eloc., 76; Plut. de Glor. Athen., 2;
Fronto ad Verum, i. (p. 124) ed. Mai; Var.
Hist., 111, 31; Brunn, ii. 194.
NICKELE (Nikkelen), ISAAK VAN, born
in Haarlem about 1630 (?), died there, Dec.
25, 1703. Architecture painter; entered
the guild in 1660, and painted interiors of
extraordinary clearness. "Works: Interior
of Church at Haarlem, Brussels Museum;
do. (1693), Haarlem Museum; Interior of
Gothic Church, Six Collection, Amsterdam;
do., Darmstadt Museum; do., Museo Civico,
Venice; do. (1693), and Interior of New
Church at Delft, Brunswick Gallery; Interiors
of Protestant Church (2, one dated
1698), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; others
in Copenhagen Gallery and Stockholm Museum.—D.
Kunstbl. (1854), 77; Kramm, iv.
1201; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 434; Van der
Willigen, 231.
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NICKELE, JAN VAN, born in Haarlem in 1649, died in Cassel in 1716. Landscape painter, son and pupil of Isaak van Nickele. He spent some time in the service of the Elector of the Palatinate, in Düsseldorf, afterwards at the court of Hesse-Cassel. Works: Stag in a Wood, Cassel Gallery; Series of Views, Gallery of Castle of Wilhelmshöhe near Cassel; Two Landscapes, Dresden Gallery; Castle Benrath in Berg (2, 1714, 1715), Schleissheim Gallery; Church Interiors (2), Czernin Gallery, Vienna.—Immerzeel, ii. 264; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 545.
NICKOL, (KARL) FRIEDRICH
(ADOLPH), born at Schöppenstedt, Brunswick,
in 1824. Animal and landscape painter,
pupil in Brunswick of Heinrich Brandes;
went in 1846 to Munich, and visited Belgium,
Holland, France, and, in 1853-54, Italy.
Professor at Polytechnic Institute in Brunswick.
Works: Moonlight Night in Holland;
Moonlight Landscape with Cattle; The Miser;
Fight with Eagle; Four Divisions of
Day; Seven Italian Landscapes.—Müller, 393.
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NICOL, ERSKINE, born at Leith, Scotland,
July, 1825.
Genre painter, pupil
of Trustees'
Academy, Edinburgh;
when
twenty years old
went to Dublin,
where he lived
four years, and
after his return to
Edinburgh painted
Hibernian subjects with so much skill
