Johan Teyler

Dutch à la poupée print in three colors, of a tulip, c. 1690s, Teyler workshop Johannes or Johan Teyler (23 May 1648 – c.1709) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver, mathematics teacher, and promoter of the technique in color printmaking now known as à la poupée.

Biography Teyler was born at Nijmegen. His father was William Taylor, an English or Scottish mercenary, who changed his name to Teyler. Johan studied Latin at the Latin school of Nijmegen and Mathematics at the Kwartierlijke Academie, where he wrote a dissertation in favor of Descartes. They knew each other from their time in Rome as members of the Bentvueghel club, where Teyler also consorted with his former Math pupil from Nijmegen Jan van Call.

According to the RKD where he is registered as a painter, he returned from Italy in 1683 and remained in Nijmegen except for his trip to Berlin.

The Rijksmuseum has several hundred à la poupée prints by his workshop, many in multiple impressions, allowing the differences between each impression that are inevitable with the technique to be seen.