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


Biography

Wandelaar trained under Jacob Folkema, Gillem van der Gouwen, and Gérard de Lairesse, and made a name in anatomical art after drawing for
Fredrik Ruysch Frederik Ruysch (; March 28, 1638 – February 22, 1731) was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He is known for developing techniques for preserving anatomical specimens, which he used to create dioramas or scenes incorporating human parts. His an ...
. He was due to work for
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who died before work could begin. According to
Johan van Gool Johan, or Jan van Gool (1685–1763), was a Dutch painter and writer from The Hague, now remembered mainly as a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age. Life Jan van Gool was a pupil of Simon van der Does and Mattheus Terwesten.
he engraved paintings by
Huchtenburg J(oh)an and Jacob van Huchtenburg (also known as Hughtenburg or Hugtenburg(h)) were two Dutch Golden Age painters in the second half of the seventeenth century. Both brothers were natives of Haarlem, moved to Paris, but died in Amsterdam. The ma ...
.Jan Wandelaar, Part 2, page 189
in ''Nieuwe Schouburg'' (with painter index), (1750) by Jan van Gool, in the ''Institute of Dutch History''
According to the RKD he was a pupil of Johannes Jacobsz Folkema,
Gilliam van der Gouwen Gilliam van der Gouwen, first name also transcribed as Guilliam and Willem (ca. 1657, Antwerp — buried on 15 March 1716, Amsterdam)Gerard de Lairesse.Jan Wandelaar
in the RKD
He became the teacher of
Pieter Lyonet Pierre Lyonnet or Lyonet (21 July 1706 – 10 January 1789) was a Dutch artist and engraver who became a naturalist. He was a collector both of shells (a major collecting craze at the time) and paintings, whose collection included '' Woman Re ...
and Abraham Delfos. Furthermore, he illustrated and engraved the images for Bernhard Siegfried Albinus's ''Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani'' which included illustrations of the rhinoceros Clara on the background.


References

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