(b Szczebrzeszyn, nr Lublin, 1 Feb 1841; d Radom, 12 June 1915). Polish painter. From 1858 he was in Paris, registered as a student of engineering at the Ecole des Ponts et Chauss?es, but from 1859 he studied painting under the guidance of the Polish artist Juliusz Fortunat Kossak and also took instruction from Henryk Rodakowski and worked briefly with L?on Cogniet. In 1860 Brandt returned to Poland with Kossak, and the two artists travelled to the Ukraine and Podole: the beauty of the eastern borderlands made a lasting impression on Brandt, and this region became the chief setting for his paintings. Until 1862 Brandt remained largely under Kossak's influence, both in his subject-matter (drawn largely from the 17th-century military and hunting life of the borderlands) and in his colouring and technique, especially in his watercolours. In 1861 Brandt exhibited a series of drawings and watercolour sketches in Warsaw at the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, drawing his subjects from patriotic literature, and his work was well-received by the public.
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