He engraved some of the subjects for Brockedon's Passes of the Alps, Captain Batty's Saxony, Turner's England and Wales and English Rivers, and numerous plates for The Art Journal, after Turner, Stanfield, Callcott, Herring, and others.
His most important engravings on a large scale were Turner's Crossing the Brook, "The Snow-storm", and ,The Bay of Baiae.
He occasionally exhibited small oil pictures at the British Institution, which were distinguished by a good feeling for nature and a healthy tone of colour.
His brother John Brandard was a lithograph artist who designed many illustrated title-pages for music.
[1] His younger brother, Edward Paxman Brandard (1819–1898) was apprenticed to him while in Islington, London.