August Querfurt (1696–1761)

• Was an Austrian painter.
• Querfurt was born in Vienna.
• He painted primarily soldiers and battle scenes.
• He was first instructed by his father, Tobias Querfurt, a landscape and animal painter, and afterwards studied under Rugendas at Augsburg.
• He painted encampments, battles, skirmishes of cavalry, and hunting subjects, in all of which he appears rather as an imitator than as an original painter.
• He died at Vienna in 1761.
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