Robert Brandard (1805, in Birmingham – 1862, in London) was a British

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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 Edward Goodall (1795 – 11 April 1870) was a British engraver. He is now best known for his plates after J. M. W. Turner. Life He was born at Leeds on 17 September 1795, and was entirely self-taught. From the age of sixteen he practised both ...

, 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,

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, 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

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, 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 John Brandard (1812 in Birmingham – 15 December 1863 in London) was an English Lithography, lithographic artist. He designed many hundred illustrated title-pages for sheet music in what Michael Bryan (art historian), Michael Bryan judged "a prett ...

was a

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artist who designed many illustrated title-pages for music. His younger brother, Edward Paxman Brandard (1819–1898) was apprenticed to him while in

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, London. Several plates by Edward also appeared in '' The Art Journal'' between 1853 and 1887. Another engraver who studied with Robert Brandard was Joseph Clayton Bentley.

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* 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, *1833, a painting by Samuel Austin, *1835, a painting by Henry Melville from The Pilgrim's Progress, * A painting of engraved by W L Leach for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1840 with a posthumous poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. 1805 births 1862 deaths Artists from Birmingham, West Midlands English engravers English landscape artists {{UK-printmaker-stub