Christian Hilfgott Brand

Christian Hilfgott Brand (16 March 1695, Frankfurt an der Oder – 22 July 1756, Vienna) was a German-Austrian landscape painter.

He then moved to Regensburg, to live with his mother's relatives, where he sought employment in a commercial office.

To help complete them, he enlisted the aid of his friend, August Querfurt who, as a painter of hunting and battle scenes, specialized in horses and large groups of people.

He switched to painting with his left hand, and produced a "Magnificat" (a scene from the life of the Virgin Mary).

Heinrich Carl Brandt, a portrait painter who was born in 1724, between his marriages, is generally believed to be his son as well.