Linnaeus Hortus Cliffortianus frontispiece (Mother Earth & Apollo)

Jan Wandelaar (14 April 1690,

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– 26 March 1759,

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), 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. He was due to work for Arend Cant 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.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 Gerard or Gérard (de) Lairesse (11 September 1641 – June 1711) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist. His broad range of skills included music, poetry, and theatre. De Lairesse was influenced by the Perugian Cesare Ripa and Fr ...

.Jan Wandelaar
in the

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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

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's ''Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani'' which included illustrations of the rhinoceros

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on the background.

References

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