Jan Augustini
Dutch painter
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Jan Augustini Degelenkamp (16 November 1725 – 2 December 1773) was an 18th-century painter from the Dutch Republic.[1]
Born16 November 1725
Died2 December 1773 (aged 48)
Jan Degelenkamp | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 November 1725 |
| Died | 2 December 1773 (aged 48) |
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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