John Brandard
Illustration — 1848 lithograph of Pauline Viardot as Valentine (left) and Marietta Alboni as Urbain in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Act 1 scene ix, Royal Opera House, London. John Brandard (1812 in Birmingham – 15 December 1863 in London) was an English lithographic artist. He designed many hundred illustrated title-pages for sheet music in what Michael Bryan judged "a pretty, though weak, style".
John Brandard
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Illustration — 1848 lithograph of Pauline Viardot as Valentine (left) and Marietta Alboni as Urbain in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Act 1 scene ix, Royal Opera House, London. John Brandard (1812 in Birmingham – 15 December 1863 in London) was an English lithographic artist. He designed many hundred illustrated title-pages for sheet music in what Michael Bryan judged "a pretty, though weak, style".
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Born at Birmingham in 1812, died at Chalk Farm in 1863.
The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with M. & N. Work by John Brandard is recorded in the collections of Australian National Maritime Museum, National Library of Wales and Yale Center for British Art.
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- 1.Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons, p. 176
- 2.Joanna Selborne, 'Brandard family (per. c.1825–1898)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64149 accessed 29 March 2012
- 3.Brandard in the 'Philip Ward-Jackson Sheet Music Collection'
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