Jan Caspar Philips
Jan Caspar Philips (1690 – 1775), was a German engraver who settled in Amsterdam.
Jan Philips | |
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Philips by Tibout Regters, 1747 | |
| Born | 1690 |
| Died | 1775 (aged 84–85) |
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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