Robert Brandard (1805, in

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– 1862, in

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) 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,

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, 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'',

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's ''England and Wales'' and ''English Rivers'', and numerous plates for ''

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'', 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

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. His brother John Brandard 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 ''

'' between 1853 and 1887. Another engraver who studied with Robert Brandard was Joseph Clayton Bentley.

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made for The Bijou annual for 1828 with illustrative verse by

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. * Engravings of paintings for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Books with poetical illustrations by

. *1832, a painting by

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, *1833, a painting by Samuel Austin, *1835, a painting by Henry Melville from

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, * A painting of engraved by W L Leach for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1840 with a posthumous poetical illustration by

. 1805 births 1862 deaths Artists from Birmingham, West Midlands 19th-century English engravers English landscape artists {{UK-printmaker-stub