Jan Wandelaar

Jan Wandelaar (14 April 1690, Amsterdam – 26 March 1759, Leiden), was an 18th-century painter, illustrator and engraver from the Northern Netherlands.

Frontispiece to the Linnaeus work Hortus Cliffortianus

Anthospermum aethiopicum

Biography

According to Johan van Gool he engraved paintings by Huchtenburg.[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]

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

References

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

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[Gool-1] (in Dutch) Jan Wandelaar, Part 2, page 189 in Nieuwe Schouburg (with painter index), (1750) by Jan van Gool, in the Institute of Dutch History

[RKD-2] Jan Wandelaar in the RKD