Jan Augustini

Jan Augustini Degelenkamp (16 November 1725 – 2 December 1773), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.[1]

Jan Degelenkamp
Born16 November 1725
Groningen, The Netherlands
Died2 December 1773(1773-12-02) (aged 48)
Haarlem, Holland, The Netherlands

Biography

According to the RKD, he was a landscape painter who made large wall decorations, many of which are still installed in the buildings for which they were designed.[2] He was a pupil of Philip van Dijk in The Hague.[2] He started his career working on pictures of flora for botanists, and contributed to the herbarium of the Leiden hortulanus Jacobus Schuurmans Stekhoven.[3] His pupils were his son Jacobus Luberti Augustini, Egbert van Drielst, Hermanus Numan, Gabriël van Rooyen, and Hendrik Tavenier.[2]

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References
  1. Institute, Witt Library of the Courtauld (2014-06-03). Checklist of Painters from 1200-1994. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-26413-1.
  2. Jan Augustini in the RKD
  3. Jan Augustini in the History of art by Adriaan van der Willigen and Roeland van Eynden
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