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,Jan Wandelaar in the RKD 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. 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'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.
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