Education
He was a pupil of Pieter Gerardus van Os, but also studied with Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk. Brondgeest collected and studied art from the 17th century and got his inspiration from those works.
He was a pupil of Pieter Gerardus van Os, but also studied with Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk. Brondgeest collected and studied art from the 17th century and got his inspiration from those works.
His paintings were not his primary source of income, but he was a trader and came from a reasonably wealthy family, which was at first not very pleased with the artistic ambitions of young Albertus. In 1817 he opened his own art trade, which he made good business with. He shared his business at least for a while with Ferdinand Bol.
His business went so well, that he was able to buy a country house, "Vlietzorg".
Besides that he held several governance positions, which made him a wealthy and influential person. He passed his time in artistic circles, also during his study trips abroad (Germany, France and England).
Brondgeest submitted paintings to several exhibitions, and got accepted 0n multiple occasions, at least from 1813 until 1818. In 1839 he got recognized by the city government of The Hague with a silver medal for his submission to an exhibition there.
He was a member of the Amsterdam drawing society Zonder Wet of Spreuk (without law or motto). He was a Member of the Fourth Class of the Koninklijk Nederlandsch Instituut (Royal Dutch Institute) from 1816 onwards and of the Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam (Royal Academy of Visual Arts Amsterdam) and the Koninklijke Academie te Antwerpen (Royal Academy of Antwerp).