Christian Hilfgott Brand
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Christian Hilfgott Brand, who was born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder
Frankfurt (Oder)
Frankfurt is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, located on the Oder River, on the German-Polish border directly opposite the town of Słubice which was a part of Frankfurt until 1945. At the end of the 1980s it reached a population peak with more than 87,000 inhabitants...

 in 1695, and studied under Agricola
Christoph Ludwig Agricola
Christoph Ludwig Agricola was a German landscape painter. He was born and died at Regensburg .He spent a great part of his life in travel, visiting England, the Netherlands and France, and residing for a considerable period at Naples.His numerous landscapes, chiefly cabinet pictures, are...

, left that town and settled, in 1720, 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...

, where he became celebrated for his landscapes. He died at Vienna in 1756. The Belvedere
Belvedere (palace)
The Belvedere is a historical building complex in Vienna, Austria, consisting of two Baroque palaces the Upper and Lower Belvedere, the Orangery, and the Palace Stables. The buildings are set in a Baroque park landscape in the 3rd district of the city, south-east of its centre. It houses the...

has by him four pictures, landscapes with figures of cattle.
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