Jan Wandelaar

Jan Wandelaar 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, and made a name in anatomical art after drawing for Frederik Ruysch. He taught Pieter Lyonet and Abraham Delfos. He was due to work for Arend Cant who died before work could begin. According to Johan van Gool he engraved paintings by Huchtenburg.
He illustrated and engraved the images for Bernhard Siegfried Albinus'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.
Wandelaar died in Leiden in 1759.