Christian Hilfgott Brand

Landscape with a river, Ca' d'Oro, Venice

Christian Hilfgott Brand, who was born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder in 1695, and studied under Agricola, left that town and settled, in 1720, at Vienna, where he became celebrated for his landscapes. He died at Vienna in 1756. The Belvedere has by him four pictures, landscapes with figures of cattle.

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This article incorporates text from the article "BRAND, Christian Hülfgott" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.