Friedrich August Brand, the son of Christian Hülfgott Brand

Christian Hilfgott Brand

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...

, was born at Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

 in 1735. He was a member of the Imperial Academy

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is an institution of higher education in Vienna, Austria.- History :The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy by the court-painter Peter Strudl, who became the Praefectus Academiae Nostrae. In 1701 he was ennobled as Baron of the Empire...

, and died at Vienna in 1806. He painted several historical subjects and landscapes, which are favourably spoken of by the German authors, and engraved

Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...

 some plates, both with the point

Drypoint

Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point. Traditionally the plate was copper, but now acetate, zinc, or plexiglas are also commonly used...

 and with the graver

Burin

Burin from the French burin meaning "cold chisel" has two specialised meanings for types of tools in English, one meaning a steel cutting tool which is the essential tool of engraving, and the other, in archaeology, meaning a special type of lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which was probably...

, in the use of which he was instructed by Schmutzer. Among others, we have the following by him:

• The Breakfast; after Torenvliet
  Jacob Toorenvliet
  Jacob Toorenvliet was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works.-Biography:Toorenvliet was born in Leiden, to Abraham Toorenvliet , a glass painter and drawing instructor. The younger Toorenvliet first studied art with Frans van Mieris the Elder and Matthijs Naiveu, who were also studying with his...
  
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• A View near Nuisdorf.
• View of the Garden of Schoenbrunn.
• Banditti attacking a Carriage.
• The Entrance to the Town of Crems.