Robert Brandard (1805, in Birmingham – 1862, in London) was a British landscape engraver and landscapist.
Brandard was the eldest son of Thomas Brandard (d. 1830), engraver and copperplate printer, of Barford Street, Deritend, Birmingham, and his wife, Ann. He went to London in 1824, and entered the studio of Edward Goodall, with whom he remained a year. He engraved some of the subjects for Brockedon's Passes of the Alps, Captain Batty's Saxony, Turner's England and Wales and English Rivers, and numerous plates for The Art Journal, after Turner, Stanfield, Callcott, Herring, and others. His most important engravings on a large scale were Turner's "Crossing the Brook", "The Snow-storm", and "The Bay of Baiae". He also published two volumes of etchings, chiefly landscapes, after his own designs. He occasionally exhibited small oil pictures at the British Institution, which were distinguished by a good feeling for nature and a healthy tone of colour. The watercolour "Rocks at Hastings" is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
His brother John Brandard was a lithograph artist who designed many illustrated title-pages for music.[1] His younger brother, Edward Paxman Brandard (1819–1898) was apprenticed to him while in Islington, London. Several plates by Edward also appeared in The Art Journal between 1853 and 1887.[2] Another engraver who studied with Robert Brandard was Joseph Clayton Bentley.[3]
References
- ↑ Modern English Biography: (Supplement v.1–3) p. 486, Frederic Boase (Truro 1908).
- ↑ Dictionary of nineteenth-century journalism in Great Britain and Ireland, p. 73, Laurel Brake, Marysa Demoor (2009).
- ↑ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Brandard, Robert". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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Sans Souci. An engraving of a painting by Thomas Stothard made for The Bijou annual for 1828 with illustrative verse by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.- Engravings of paintings for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Books with poetical illustrations by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
- 1832, a painting by William Henry Bartlett, Curraghmore.
- 1833, a painting by Samuel Austin, Liverpool.
- 1835, a painting by Henry Melville from The Pilgrim's Progress, The River of the Water of Life.
- A painting of The Shrine and Grotto of Santa Rosalia. engraved by W L Leach for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1840 with a posthumous poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.