an ancient Greek painter, flourished in the time of Aratus of Sicyon, about the middle of the third century B.C. Little is known regarding either his life or his works. A Venus, and a painting of the naval battle on the Nile between the Egyptians and Persians, are mentioned by Pliny as two of his masterpieces. In the latter of these he very happily indicated the country in which the scene was laid, by representing a crocodile on the eve of seizing an ass that was drinking at the river. Nealces had a daugh- ter named Anaxandra, who became an artist. The painter Erigonas was once his colour-grinder.