Jan Wandelaar

January Wandelaar ( born April 14, 1690 in Amsterdam, † March 26, 1759 in Leiden ) was a Dutch painter, engraver and etcher.

Life and work

January Wandelaar was a student of John Jacob and Willem van der Folkema Gouwen († 1720).

After templates by Claude Aubriet he stabbed the illustrations in Sébastien Vaillant Botanicon Parisiense ( 1727). Important are its particular anatomical illustrations which he delivered for Frederik Ruysch's Opera omnia anatomico -medico - chirurgica huc usque edita (1737 ) and the Tabulae sceleti et corporis humani musculorum ( 1747 ) by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus.

He designed the front tip of Carl Linnaeus Hortus Cliffortianus (1737) and provided some of the drawings for the 36 contained therein and engraved by him panels.

His recent works include the portraits drawn of him Mayor of Amsterdam, which were engraved by Jacobus Houbraken.

Swell

  • Alfred von Wurzbach: Dutch artist lexicon: more than 3000 monograms Vienna: Stem and Goldmann, 1906-1911. - Band 1-3
  • January Wandelaar. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker et al: General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Volume 35, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p 141
  • Copper engraver
  • Netherlander
  • Born in 1690
  • Died in 1759
  • Man
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