
![Johann Georg Bergmüller (Türkheim, Swabia, 1688 – Augsburg 1762). Georgivs Phillippvs Rvgendas Avgvstanvs (the Elder) … Large half length portrait medallion (9¼ × 7¼ in [23.5 × 18.5 cm]) with palettelike inscription tablet left below of a painter putto with palette and brush in the extended left (Rugendas was lefthander), suggestively held by half length splendid dominating harnessed standard bearer, in his colors beside Augsburg’s cembra nut the imperial double eagle. In the right lower pendentive head & hand of an armored harness. The upper left pictorial scenery reminding of armed events painted by Rugendas, lead by mounted Kurucs – insurgents in the wake of the Ottoman Wars (1683/99) – wielding scimitars, in the distance general mêlée close to a church, not least in allusion to the siege & occupation of Augsburg (1703/04) during the War of the Spanish Succession prominent in the œuvre. Mezzotint by Johann Jacob Haid (Kleineislingen 1704 – Augsburg 1767). Inscribed: I. Iac. Haid ad vivum pinx. sculps. et excud. Aug. Vind. / I. G. Bergmüller invenit et delin, otherwise as above. 15⅞ × 10¾ in (40.3 × 27.3 cm). Bergmüller, Georg Philipp Rugendas I](images/16220_400.jpg)
Johann Georg Bergmüller
Georgivs Phillippvs Rvgendas Avgvstanvs
Mezzotint

Georg Philipp Rugendas I
Prince Eugene of Savoy

Georg Philipp Rugendas I
John Churchill Duke of Marlborough

Georg Philipp Rugendas I
Assembling for the Ride

Georg Philipp Rugendas I
Assembling for the Ride

Georg Philipp Rugendas I
Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Scenes
from 1693-1705