Jan van Rymsdyk
Dutch painter (c. 1730–1790)
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Jan van Rymsdyk (also Rijmsdijck, Riemsdyk, Remsdyke) (c. 1730 – 20 February 1790)[1][2] was a Dutch painter and engraver. He is known for his landscapes in the manner of Salomon van Ruisdael and Tielemans. His brothers Hendrik and Pieter were also painters, though neither achieved as much renown. Jan was a major influence on engravers such as Joseph Jacobs and his student Rogier van der Weyden. He is now best known as an anatomic illustrator for his original drawings for three major atlases of normal and abnormal pregnancy published in the mid eighteenth century in London.
Life
Works
In 1767 Rymsdyk executed a mezzotint engraving of Frederick Henry and Emilia Van Solms, Prince and Princess of Orange, from a painting by Jacob Jordaens at Devonshire House. His skill brought him work with William Hunter, and he executed some of the engravings for Hunter's Anatomia Humani Gravidi Uteri (1774). In 1778, with his son Andrew, he published a series of plates from antiquities and curiosities in the British Museum, Museum Britannicum (second, revised edition 1791).[3]
