Jan Tengnagel

Jan Tengnagel, Vertumnus and Pomona, Rembrandt House Museum, 1617Jan Tengnagel (baptised 9 September 1584– buried 23 March 1635) was a Dutch draughtsman and painter.

Jan Tengnagel is one of the lesser known history painters of the early seventeenth-century group in Amsterdam centered around Pieter Lastman, who were of great importance to Dutch painting. The fact that he is not well known is probably due to his very limited oeuvre. Tengnagel born and died in Amsterdam, but traveled and lived in Rome, Italy, between 1608 and 1611. He painted mainly biblical and other religious works. and B.Gerbier, "Een ende Claght-Dicht Ter Eeren van de lofweerdigen Hernritus Goltzius, Den Haag 1620.

Nevertheless he opted for a career in public service, becoming a provost in 1619 and being appointed deputy-sheriff in 1625. The last dated works by him are of 1624, after which he seems to have ceased painting. He died a well-to-do man in Amsterdam 1635.

He had one pupil named Laurens Heinrich Hellewich.