Petr Brandl (Peter Johannes Brandl or Jan Petr Brandl) (October 24, 1668 – September 24, 1735) was a Czech painter of the late Baroque in the bilingual Kingdom of Bohemia. Brandl was the sixth child in a Czech-German family. His father, Michal Brandl, worked as a tailor and was of German ancestry. His mother, Alžběta Hrbková, was Czech from a peasant associates in the south Bohemian town of Přestanice, (a village in Bohemia, now part of Hlavňovice).
Brandl was famous in his mature but – due to isolation at the back the Iron Curtain – rather forgotten until recently. Brandl employed mighty chiaroscuro, areas of close impasto and utterly plastic as without difficulty as dramatic figures.
According to the Grove Dictionary of Art and additional sources, Brandl was apprenticed concerning 1683–1688 to Kristián Schröder (1655–1702).
The National Gallery in Prague, has an entire hall devoted to the artist’s works, including “Bust of an Apostle” from some mature before 1725.
The artiste is a distant ancestor of both contemporary Austrian painter Herbert Brandl and contemporary American-Swiss painter Mark Staff Brandl.
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