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

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Biography

Wandelaar trained under Jacob Folkema, Gilliam van der Gouwen, and Gerard de Lairesse,Jan Wandelaar
in the

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and made a name in anatomical art after drawing for Frederik Ruysch. He taught

Pieter Lyonet Pierre Lyonnet or Lyonet (21 July 1706 – 10 January 1789) was a Dutch artist and engraving, engraver who became a naturalist. He was a collector both of shells (a major collecting craze at the time) and paintings, whose collection included ''W ...

and Abraham Delfos. 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'' He illustrated and engraved the images for

Bernhard Siegfried Albinus Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (originally Weiss; 24 February 16979 September 1770) was a Germany, German-born Netherlands, Dutch anatomist. He served a professor of medicine at the Leiden University, University of Leiden like his father Bernhardus ...

's ''Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani''. The second London edition of 1749 featured a human skeleton image now with added illustrations of the rhinoceros Clara in the background. File:Primae delineationes Tabularum sceleti et musculorum corporis humani muscles of the hand BPL 1802 48b.tiff, Jan Wandelaar: Human hand muscles. Drawing for Albinus, ''Tabulae'', 1747.

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. File:Frontal view of the human skeleton BPL 1914 I.tiff, Jan Wandelaar: A human skeleton. Drawing for Albinus, ''Tabulae'', 1747. Leiden University Library. File:Clara-Wandelaar.jpg, Jan Wandelaar: A human skeleton with rhinoceros Clara.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wandelaar, Jan 1690 births 1759 deaths Dutch botanical illustrators 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters Engravers from Amsterdam