Nature, precise and direct - botanical paintings by Albertus Jonas Brandt

 

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Not quite botanical; let's just say "botanical adjacent"...!

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Albertus Jonas Brandt (22 November 1787, Amsterdam – 12 February 1821, Amsterdam), Dutch still-life painter. He was the son of a book printer and seller, and while working in his father's shop, he became a pupil of painter Jan Evert Morel, best known for his flower studies. After Morel's death in 1808, he spent two years with another painter known for his floral work, Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os. But when van Os moved to France in 1810, Brandt continued his studies by himself, copying the work of the earlier floral painter Jan van Huysum. In 1814 and 1816 he won prizes in the academy Felix Meritis and soon became quite well known for his work which featured, variously, flowers, fruit, or dead game. He died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-three. His collection of drawings, paintings, and tools was auctioned off eight months after his death.

Portrait of the artist by Jacob Ernst Marcus and Hendrik Willem Caspari, 1816.