Jan Wandelaar
18th century painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands
About Jan Wandelaar
Lived 1690 – 1759 (aged 68). Jan Wandelaar was a Dutch painter, printmaker, draftsperson, engraver and map drawer.
Jan Wandelaar (14 April 1690 – 26 March 1759) was an 18th-century painter, illustrator and engraver from the Dutch Republic.
Biography Wandelaar was born in Amsterdam. He trained under Jacob Folkema, Gilliam van der Gouwen, and Gerard de Lairesse, and made a name in anatomical art after drawing for Frederik Ruysch. He taught Pieter Lyonet and Abraham Delfos. According to Johan van Gool he engraved paintings by Huchtenburg.
He illustrated and engraved the images for Bernhard Siegfried Albinus's Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani. The second London edition of 1749 featured a human skeleton image now with added illustrations of the rhinoceros Clara in the background.
Wandelaar died in Leiden in 1759.
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18th century painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands (1690-1759)
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Jan Wandelaar was born on 14 April 1690 in Amsterdam.
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Jan Wandelaar died on 26 March 1759 in Leiden.
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Jan Wandelaar was a painter, printmaker, draftsperson, engraver and map drawer.
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Jan Wandelaar was Dutch.
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