Jan Wandelaar

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Jan Wandelaar (1690, Amsterdam – 1759, Leiden), was an 18th-century painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands.

Frontispiece to the Linnaeus work Hortus Cliffortianus
Anthospermum aethiopicum

Biography

According to Johan van Gool he engraved paintings by Huchtenburg.[1] [1]

According to the RKD he was a pupil of Johannes Jacobsz Folkema, Gilliam van der Gouwen, and Gerard de Lairesse.[2] He became the teacher of Pieter Lyonet and Abraham Delfos.[2]

Furthermore, he illustrated and engraved the images for Bernhard Siegfried Albinus's Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani.

References

  1. ^ a b (in Dutch) Jan Wandelaar, Part 2, page 189 in Nieuwe Schouburg (with painter index), (1750) by Jan van Gool, in the Institute of Dutch History
  2. ^ a b Jan Wandelaar in the RKD