Jan Wandelaar

Frontispiece to the Linnaeus work Hortus Cliffortianus

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

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]

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

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References

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

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Name	Wandelaar, Jan
Alternative names
Short description	18th century painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands
Date of birth	1690
Place of birth	Amsterdam
Date of death	1759
Place of death	Leiden

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