- ground. Fruit by Snyders. In Rubens's
catalogue after his decease (1640); afterwards in Collection of Joseph Bonaparte; taken to England about 1838; bought by the Queen in 1841.—Waagen, Treasures, ii. 2; Smith, ii. 34, 137; Jameson, London Gal., 39.
PYTHEAS, painter, of Bura, Achaia.
Only known work a picture of an elephant
on a wall at Pergamus.—Steph. Byzan., v.;
Brunn, ii. 292.
QUADAL, MARTIN FERDINAND,
born at Niemtschitz, Moravia, Oct.
28, 1736, died in St. Petersburg,
Jan. 11, 1811. Genre, portrait, and animal
painter, pupil of Vienna Academy; visited
Germany, England, France, and Italy, lived
in 1797-1804 in St. Petersburg, whither he
returned after two years in London. Member
of several Academies. Most of his works
are in England and Russia. Works: Equestrian
Portrait of Alexander I. (1804); Portrait
of Klopstock; Model-Room at Vienna
Academy (1787), Greyhounds with Booty
(1784), Vienna Academy; Review of Joseph
II.; Camp of Minkendorf; Allegory of Peace;
Group of Lions; Game-Dealers; Boy with
Dogs; Group of Cats; Tame and Wild Animals
(1793).—Wurzbach, xxiv. 130; Zeitschr.
f. b. K., xiii. 320.
QUADRONE, GIOVANNI BATTISTA,
born at Mondovi, Piedmont, 1844. Genre
painter, pupil of Turin Academy under
Gamba and Gaetano Ferri; won all the
prizes and went to Paris in 1868 to study
under Bonnat and Gérôme; returned to
Italy in 1870. Called by his countrymen
the Italian Meissonier. Works: Poor Man;
Disagreeable Day; Zoölogical Studies; Deceiver;
The Model and Light Poetry (1878);
Painter's Studio, Naturalist, Judgment of
Paris, Rope Dancers (1880); Unpromising
Meeting; Among Prisoners; Little Revenge;
Virago.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 804.
QUAGLIO, DOMENICO, born in Munich,
Jan. 1, 1786, died at Hohenschwangau,
April 9, 1837. Landscape and architecture
painter, son and pupil of Giuseppe Quaglio,
of a numerous family of artists who emigrated
from Laino, near Lake of Como, to
Bavaria in 17th century. The eldest was
Giulio Quaglio (born in 1601), history painter,
imitator of Tintoretto, worked in Vienna,
Salzburg, and Laybach, where many of his
altarpieces and fresco paintings are to be
found. Domenico was at first a scene painter
in Munich, then travelled extensively in
Germany, the Netherlands, England, France,
and Italy, and was among the first to reach
in architectural painting the high standard
of the famous Dutch masters. His last work
was the restoration and decoration of Castle
Hohenschwangau. Member of Munich, Berlin,
Leipsic, and other Academies. Works:
Ruin on Lake, Fish-Market in Antwerp (1824),
Monastery Church at Kaisheim, Kiederich
on the Rhine, Church at Boppard, Pfalzburg
on the Rhine, National Gallery, Berlin; View
of Frankfort (1832), Städel Gallery, Frankfort;
Frauenberg Cathedral (1833), Königsberg
Museum; Minster at Freiburg (1821),
Leipsic Museum; Old Abbey at Rouen, Interior
of St. Sebaldus at Nuremberg (1816),
Old Gate of Salzburg Fortress (1815), Villa
Malta in Rome (1830), Orvieto Cathedral
(1831), Former Courtyard of Royal Palace
in Munich (1826), Former Northeast Side of
do. (1828), Residenz-Schwabinger Strasse,
ib. (1826), Views in Munich (8, 1822, 1826,
1827, 1828, 1835), New Pinakothek, Munich;
Forest Chapel (1817), Schleissheim
Gallery; Views of City Hall at Louvain;
Rheims, Worms, Cologne, and Ratisbon
Cathedrals; Burg Eltz, Heidelberg Castle,
Hohenschwangau, etc. By his brother Angelo
(1778-1815): Landscape by Moonlight,
Baptismal Procession approaching Gothic
Church, New Pinakothek, Munich. His
brother Lorenz (born in Munich in 1793),
was a genre painter: Card Players in Tyrolese
Inn (1824), National Gallery, Berlin.
Simon (1795-1878), youngest brother of
Domenico, excelled in water-colours; his
sons, Angelo (born in Munich, Dec. 13,
