NEER, nitr, .].vier V.?N DER ( Dutch landscape painter, horn at Amsterdam.
Ile was a friend of Albert I. who occasionally supplied the figures and animals in his pictures, which were for the most part moonlight scenes, depicted with a prevailing warill tone. At times he represented the sante usually towns or groups of Cottages On the banks of a canal or river, under the effect of sunlight. Fine speci mens of this kind arc in the National gallery, London. in the louvre, and in the .Nletropolitan .Museum. New York. Three remarkable examples of his conflagration effects. which he de picted with great truth. are in the Berlin Museum. which, besides four other of Ids work. contains one of his most effective moonlight !ducts. .1niong the best of the latter variety are IWO in the Gallery ;11111 one in the Vienna .Nlusetim. 'flie warmth :end glow of his coloring extend even to his winter landscapes, which may be seen to hest advantage in the museums of .1nisterdam and Brunswick. Ile died at Amsterdam. November 9, 1677.
Ills son. Ec.1.41N VAN DER NEER 1h13), a genre and landscape painter, was born at -Musterdant. lb. was at first instructed by his father. who, on his showing preference for figure
painting, placed hint under ,lakol, van Loo. Front 1603 on he spent about three years in France, then lived sliceessiVely in Rotterdam. Amsterdam, and Brussels, and in 1687 Court painter to the Elector Palatine at Diisseldorf. where he died on :May 3. 1703. favorite subjects were single figures, especially ladies in elegant attire. engaged in domestic oemipations, in the manner of Terborch and Netscher. wit 11 W110111 t111• tin(' 11?1-110 sp0tyu in his eoinposit and pervading all details. entitles him to be ranked. A harmonious example of this kind is a Tuning Iles (1078). itt the l'inakothek at Similar pictures are in the Rotterdam Museum (dated 1609), and in the galleries at 1:arlsrithe (1677) and 1)resden. ()cc:I.-don:61y he painted. but suecessfully, biblical sub ject4, suet] as •.•I'obias with the Angel'' (1090), in 1114. .1111sterdani Museum. and later also land seapes. taking Elsheimer for his model. Two examples of these (dated 1097) are in the Uffizi Gallery at Florence. which also contains the artI-1, portrait (1696),