Jan Wandelaar

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Frontispiece to Carl Linnaeus: Hortus Cliffortianus, Amsterdam, 1737
Wandelaar and Ehret: Anthospermum aethiopicum from Linnaeus: Hortus Cliffortianus, 1737

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

Biography

Wandelaar was born in Amsterdam. He trained under Jacob Folkema, Gilliam van der Gouwen, and Gerard de Lairesse,[1] and made a name in anatomical art after drawing for Frederik Ruysch. He taught Pieter Lyonet and Abraham Delfos.[1] He was due to work for Arend Cant who died before work could begin.[2] According to Johan van Gool he engraved paintings by Huchtenburg.[3]

He illustrated and engraved the images for Bernhard Siegfried Albinus's Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani.[4] The second London edition of 1749 featured a human skeleton image now with added illustrations of the rhinoceros Clara in the background.[2]

Wandelaar died in Leiden in 1759.

References

  1. Jan Wandelaar in the RKD
  2. Wilson-Pauwels, Linda (2009). "Jan Wandelaar, Bernard Siegfried Albinus and an Indian Rhinoceros Named Clara Set High Standards as the Process of Anatomical Illustration Entered a New Phase of Precision, Artistic Beauty, and Marketing in the 18th Century" (PDF). Journal of Biological Communication. 35 (1): E10–E17.
  3. (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
  4. Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried (1747). Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani [Tables of the skeleton and muscles of the human body] (in Latin). Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Joannes & Hermannus Verbeek. OCLC 1349590814. Retrieved 1 March 2025.