Richard Brend'amour

Franz Robert Richard Brend’amour (16 October 1831, Aachen – 22 January 1915, Düsseldorf) was a German wood-engraver, printer and publisher.

He came from a Huguenot family; the first son of Johann Nikolaus Brend’amour, a police inspector, and his wife, Maria Sophia née Leruth.

He also provided them for magazines and newspapers, including the Illustrirte Zeitung, Über Land und Meer, and Die Gartenlaube.

In 1872, at the International Polytechnic Exhibition [ru] in Moscow, the gold medal was officially awarded to his company, not Brend'amour personally.

Gustav Kruell, who would later become a well known engraver in the United States, was an apprentice at the company's original branch in the early part of the decade.