QUADAL, Martin Ferdinand

(b. 1736 Niemtschitz, Moravia, d. 1808 St. Petersburg)

Moravian painter, itinerant throughout Europe. He studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna and then in 1767 in Paris; he was employed there by Louis-Joseph, Prince de Condé and was especially successful with his pictures of horses.

In the course of his career he travelled widely, on different occasions throughout the 1770s working in England and Ireland and exhibiting his portraits and hunting pictures at the Royal Academy. In 1784 he travelled to Italy, visiting Rome and Naples, and he subsequently visited Vienna (1787), the Netherlands (1794) and Hamburg (1796); from 1797 until his death he was in St Petersburg.

Life Class in the Vienna Academy

This painting by this largely forgotten painter captures the atmosphere and proceedings of the daily life class in the Vienna Academy and presents the most prominent personalities of the college, including the painter himself sitting on a stool and drawing.

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Life Class in the Vienna Academy (detail)

This painting presents the most prominent personalities of the college, including the painter himself sitting on a stool and drawing. To the right of Quadal, Friedrich Heinrich F�ger is painting with verve, and behind his easel Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder is depicted. To the right of the model’s platform the councilor Maulbertsch is dazzled by the light.

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Portrait of Count Anton Lamberg-Sprinzenstein

Count Anton Lamberg-Sprinzenstein (1740-1822) was the Austrian diplomatic ambassador to Turin and Naples and later protector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He left his highly important holdings of international and Austrian art to this institution, making it the third important public collection in Vienna.

This signed and dated portrait of Count Anton Lamberg was painted by Quadal in Naples. It is a lively portrait capturing the sitter as a private person with his hunting dog in an unposed attitude.

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