Painter of battles and hunting-pieces, pupil of his father Tobias, and in Augsburg of Rugendas, but formed his style especially after Wouverman. His carefully executed pictures excel in transparency of colour and solidity of impasto those of Rugendas, whose inferior he is, however, in invention. Works: Battle-Piece, Historical Society, New York; Two Hunting-Pieces, Vienna Museum; Four do., and Skirmish, Augsburg Gallery; Start for Falcon Chase (2), Bugle Call (2), Aschaffenburg Gallery; Cavalry Combat (2), Bamberg Gallery; Robbers attacking Travellers, do. sharing Booty, Cassel Gallery; Lady on Horseback giving Alms, Halt before Peasant's Hut, Horseman with Falcon (2), two others, Dresden Gallery; Portrait of Michelangelo, Gotha Museum; Cavalry Skirmish, Plundering of Farm, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Horse-Pieces (2), Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Horse Fair (?), Oldenburg Gallery; Procession of Turkish Embassy, Stag Hunt, Falcon Chase, Schleissheim Gallery; Tin-smith driving his Family over a Bridge, three others, Stuttgart Museum; Horsemen with Horses, Czernin Galery, Vienna; Start for the Chase, Museo Civico, Venice; Ladies and Gentlemen on Horseback (2), Turin Gallery.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 562; Wurzbach, xxiv. 144.
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QUESNET, EUGÈNE, born in Paris, in March, 1816. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Dubufe. Medals: 3d class, 1838; 2d class, 1843; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Study of a Turk (1834); Convalescent Woman (1836); Portraits. His son Jules, pupil of Cabanel, is a portrait painter.—Bellier, ii. 331.
QUINAUX, JOSEPH, born at Namur,
March 29, 1822. Landscape painter, pupil
of Louvain and Antwerp Academies. Professor
at Brussels Academy. Order of Leopold,
1875. Works: Views in Flanders,
Holland, and Dauphiny.
QUINCKHARD, JAN MAURITS, born at
Rees, Jan. 28, 1688, died at Amsterdam,
Nov. 11, 1772. Dutch school; portrait
painter, pupil of his father, then of Arnold
Boonen, Christoffel Lubienietzki (1659-1722),
and Nicolaas Verkolje; worked at
Amsterdam, and temporarily at Utrecht.
Works: Five Regents of the former Surgeons'
Guild at Amsterdam (1732), Seven
do., Four do. (1744), A Poet of the 18th
century and his Wife (1743), Amsterdam
Museum; Male and Female Portrait (1744),
Haarlem Museum; others in Utrecht. His
son and pupil, Julius (1736-76), was a genre
painter. Works: The Lovers of Music
(1755), The Art Lovers (1757), Amsterdam
Museum.
QUIRICIO DA MURANO, second half of
15th century. Venetian school; pupil of Antonio
or Giovanni da Murano; produced but
few works, and those of little importance.
His St. Lucy (1462), is in the Palace of Cardinal
Silvestri, at Rovigo.—C. & C., N.
Italy, i. 34; Siret, 734; Burckhardt, 589.
QUOST, ERNEST, born at Avallon
(Yonne); contemporary. Flower and still-life
painter, pupil of Hypolite Aumont (died
in 1865). Medals: 3d class, 1880; 2d class,
1882. Works: Flower-pieces (1866-75);
Spring Song (1878); Flowers, Game, Fish
(1880); The New Season (1882), Luxembourg
Museum; Le Ru fleuri, A Glade
(1884); Morning Flowers (1885); Wild
Flowers (1886).
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