Jan Wandelaar

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

Frontispiece to the Linnaeus work Hortus Cliffortianus
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Biography

According to Johan van Gool he engraved paintings by Huchtenburg.[1] [1]

According to the RKD he was a pupil of Johannes Jacobsz Folkema, Gilliam van der Gouwen, and Gerard de Lairesse.[2] He became the teacher of Pieter Lyonet and Abraham Delfos.[2]

Furthermore, he illustrated and engraved the images for Bernhard Siegfried Albinus's Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani.

gollark: Only 40%? Which bits are you parallelizing?
gollark: So presumably you can do the evaluation of each thing in parallel.
gollark: Genetic algorithms work by evaluating a bunch of things and merging/selecting/mutating the best ones, right?
gollark: It says here that Matlab has a `parfor` and `spmd` thing, are you using those?
gollark: Your personal computer probably has basically as much single-threaded performance as the best available ones now, give or take 40%, which is actually quite substantial but oh well.

References
  1. (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
  2. Jan Wandelaar in the RKD
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