Jan Caspar Philips

Jan Caspar Philips (1690 – 1775), was a German engraver who settled in Amsterdam.

Jan Philips
Philips by Tibout Regters, 1747
Born1690
Died1775 (aged 8485)

He was born perhaps in Trebur, like a younger brother.[1] His father was Hendrik Philips (-1748), a wigmaker, his mother Anna Elizabeth Kraft (-1753). The family settled at NZ Voorburgwal. In 1725, he became the teacher of the engraver Simon Fokke and his nephew Caspar Philips.[2] He contributed engravings to Jan Wagenaar's Hedendaagse Historie and made the engravings in 1743 for Kornelis de Wit's Verzaameling van Afbeeldingen van Doopsgezinde Leeraaren.[2] He died in Amsterdam.

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