Albertus Jonas Brandt

Albertus Jonas Brandt
Born	25 November 1787 Amsterdam, Dutch Republic
Died	12 February 1821 (aged 33) Amsterdam, Netherlands

Albertus Jonas Brandt (25 November 1787^[1] – 12 February 1821) was a Dutch still life painter. He was the son of a book printer and seller.^[2] While working in his father's shop, he became a pupil of J. E. Morel. After Morel's death in 1808, he spent two years with the painter G. J. J. van Os, (who was a son of Pieter van Os). When van Os moved to France in 1810, Brandt taught himself, copying Jan van Huysum. In 1814 and 1816 he won prizes in the academy Felix Meritis. Soon he became famous, painting dead game, fruit, and flowers.^[3]

Brandt died of tuberculosis. His collection of drawings, paintings and tools were auctioned on 29 October 1821.^[4] The painting "Flowers in a Terracotta Vase" started by Brandt was finished by Eelke Jelles Eelkema.

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  Blooms in a Terracotta Vase - (Bloemen in een terracotta vaas) - Painting by Brandt, finished by Eelke Jelles Eelkema after Brandt's death in 1821

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  Still Life with Flowers and Fruits, 1816-7 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)

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  Haringpakkerssteeg. On the right side, at the end of the row, the house where the Brandts had their shop.

References

1. Brandt was born on the 22 November but baptized three days later in the Oude Kerk (Amsterdam). Baptismal record in the Amsterdam City Archive
2. Van der Aa
3. Bryan,1886-9
4. Catalogus van eene verzameling schilderijen, teekeningen, prenten en prentwerken, voorts schilder- en teekengereedschappen enz. nagelaten door wijle de kunstschilders Albertus Jonas Brandt en Daniel Kerkhoff

Sources

• This article incorporates text from the article "BRANDT, Albertus Jonas" 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.
• Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst
• Albertus Jonas Brandt at the RKD

• Media related to Albertus Jonas Brandt at Wikimedia Commons