NAUDAIN
NEAL
over the United States, and in Germany, Norway
and Sweden. Tlie honorary degree of D.D. was
conferred on him. He edited the German publi-
cations of the Methodist Episcopal church
including the Christian Apologist, 1837-99. He
is the author of : Christological Meditations
(I808); A Commentary on the New Testament in
German (1860); Gospel Records (1866); Christolo-
gische, Betrachtiingen (^866), and Das Christen-
thum iind seine Gegensdtze (1883). He died in
Cincinnati, Ohio, May 16, 1899.
NAUDAIN, Arnold, senator, was born near Dover, Del., Jan. 6, 1790. His grandfather, a Huguenot, emigrated from France to America and settled in Delaware. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1806, A.M., 1809, and from the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., in 1810. He served during the war of 1812, as surgeon-general of the Delaware militia ; was speaker of the Delaware house of representa- tives in 1826 ; was elected to the U.S. senate in 1829 to fill the term of Louis McLane (q.v.), re- signed ; was elected for a full term in 1832, and resigned in 1836, when he was succeeded by R. H. Bayard (q.v.). He was collector of the port of Wilmington, Del. , 1841-45. He removed to Phila- delphia, Pa., in 1845, where he engaged in medical practice. He died in Odessa, Del., Jan. 4, 1872.
NAVARRO, Mary Anderson de. See Ander- son. Mary.
NEAQLE, John, portrait painter, was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 4, 1796. His parents were residents of Philadelphia, Pa., and he was educated in that city. Ho studied drawing for a short time and took a few lessons in painting. He devoted himself to portrait painting in 1818 ; established studios successively in Lexington and Louisville, Ky., and New Orleans, La., and re- turned to Philadelphia in 1820. He was married in 1820 to a daughter of Thomas Sully, the artist. He was a director of the Pennsylvannia Academy of Fine Arts, 1830-31, and first president of the Artists' Fund Society of Philadelphia, 1835-44. Among his most prominent portraits are those of William Russell Buck ; Matthew Cary ; Thomas Pym Cope ; Dr. Wm. Potts Dewees ; Dr. Wil- liam Gibson ; John Grigg ; Rev. Richard Drason HiU ; Prof. W. E. Homer ; Chief Justice George Sharswood ; William Siiort ; Gilbert Stuart ; An- drew Wallace ; Mrs. Julia Wood ; Samuel B. Wylie ; Henry Clay, and Patrick Lyon. He died in Philadelphia, Pa.. Sept. 17, 1865.
NEAL, David (Dalhoff), artist, was born in Lowell, Mass., Oct. 20, 1838; son of Stephen Bryant and Mary (Dalhoff) Neal, and grandson of Stephen Neal and of David Dalhoff. His first ancestor in America, Christoph Logadin Dalhoff, immigrated to New Amsterdam from Holland in 1830. He attended the higli school at Lawrence,
Mass., and a private academy in Andover, N.H.
Deciding to devote himself to the study of art,
he removed to San Francisco, Cal., where he
made drawings on wood. He studied in the Royal
academy, Munich, and under Maximilian Ainmtil-
ler and Alexander Wagner. He was married,
Dec. 9, 1862, to Marie, daughter of Maximilian
Ainmiiller of Munich. She died Sept. 29, 1897.
In 1870, under the direction of Carl von Pilotz,
he gave his attention entirely to figure painting.
Among his earlier paintings are : The Chajiel of
the Nonberg Convent, Salzburg (1864); Chapel of
the Kings, Westminster (1869); St. Marks (1869);
On the Grand Canal Venice (1869). His figure
subjects of later period include : Retour dii
Chasse (1870); James Watt (1873); The Burgo-
master (1873); Tlie First Meeting of Mary Stuart
and Rizzio (1876), which received the highest
award at the Royal academy of Munich ; Oliver
Cromwell Visits John Milton (1883); Nuns at
Prayer (belonging to the Royal Gallery, Stuttgart)
(1884); Admiral du Qnesne receives Louis XIV. on
hoard the flagship Louis Le Grand, at Cherbourg
(1885); Boy ivith Violin (1887). His later and
more noteworthy work consists of portraits, the
most important being those of : Countess Ler-
chenfeld, the Rev. Mark Hopkins, Mrs. W. C.
Whitney, Mrs. Harrison Garrett, the Hon. Adolph
Sutro (Paris, 1890), Governor Nesmith, Judge
Ogden Hoffman (for the U.S. District Court
room, San Francisco, Cal)., Rev. Dr. William
Henry Green (for the Lenox Library, Princeton
university), D. O. Mills, the Misses Mills, White-
law Reid, Miss Reid. Mr. Neal made his home
in Europe, visiting America occasionally.
NEAL, Henry Safford, representative, was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, Aug, 25, 1828 ; son of Henry H. and Lydia (Safford) Neal ; gi-andson of John Neal, resident of Parkersburg, Va., and of Dr. Jonas and Joanna (Merrill) Safford, who immigrated to Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1811 ; a descendant of James O'Neill, a native of Ireland, who immi- grated to Virginia with two brothers before the Revolution, changed his name to " Neal " and was captain in the 13th Virginia regiment in the Continental army, and also a lineal descendant of Thomas Safford, who came to Ipswich, Mass., from England in 1641. Henry Safford Neal grad- uated from Marietta college in 1847. engaged in mercantile business as his father's clerk, studied law under Simeon Nash, state senator and a prominent jurist of southern Ohio, and settled in practice in Ironton, Ohio, in 1851. He was prosecuting attorney of Lawrence county, 1853-57 ; a state senator from the eighth district, 1862-66 ; U.S. consul to Lisbon, Portugal, from July, 1869, to January, 1870, and charge d'affaires to that kingdom from December, 1869, to July, 1870. He was chairman of the commission ap-
