Jan Wandelaar

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Frontspiz designed by Linnés Hortus Cliffortianus and executed by Jan Wandelaar.

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

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Wandelaar was a student of Johannes Jacob Folkema and Willem van der Gouwen († 1720). He engraved the illustrations in Sébastien Vaillant's Botanicon Parisiense (1727) based on models by Claude Aubriet . His anatomical illustrations, which he provided for Frederik Ruysch's Opera omnia anatomico-medico-chirurgica huc usque edita (1737) and the Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani (1747) by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus , are particularly important .

He designed the frontispiece for Carl von Linnés Hortus Cliffortianus (1737) and provided some of the drawings for the 36 plates it contained and engraved by him . His last works include the portraits of Amsterdam mayors that he drew and that were engraved by Jacobus Houbraken . He made many of his works with black and white chalk on blue paper. His artistic estate was sold on September 4, 1759 by the art and bookseller Hendrik de Leth and his books on September 24 by A. Delfos in Amsterdam and Leiden. The poet Gerard Kempher wrote a poem about Wandelaar in his work De punished Kupido (after Decimus Magnus Ausonius ) ( Dutch Aan den Tékenkundigen Gráveerder Jan Wandelaar; Liefhebber of poetry Beminnaar der édelste Weetenschappen ). Wandelaar himself wrote the play Het gewaande bloedverwantschap, blyspel in 1723.

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Web links

Commons : Jan Wandelaar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Gerard Kempher: De punished cupid . 1724, p. 32 (Dutch, books.google.de ).
  2. ^ Jan Wandelaar: Het Gewaande bloedverwantschap. Blyspel . J. Lescaille en Dirk Rank, Amsterdam 1723 ( books.google.de ).