Jan Wandelaar
Leiden? ? - Leiden? ?
Albinus (Bernhardus Siegfried)
Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani
Verbeek at Leiden 1747
The most famous anatomic atlas
The 28 engravings by Jan Wandelaar.
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Jan Wandelaar was the professor of Abraham Delfos.
He made a vast amount of anatomic engravings, like this one with a rhinoceros in the Amsterdam Zoo, the first European zoo to have a rhino (1741).
At least two indications exist that Jan Wandelaar belonged to the family. Not the Delfos part but more likely the Van Eyck/Van Mieris branch at Leyden.
1) Frans van Mieris junior (1689-1763) wrote the "Historie der Nederlandse Vorsten (History of Dutch Monarchs), illustrated by B.Pickart and Jan Wandelaar.
2) In the municipal archives of Leyden, one can find the following note:
"Cath. Beatrix van Eyck", see "Jan Wandelaar".
It is well possible that Catharina Beatrix van Eyck was Jan Wandelaar's wife, while at the same belonging to the Van Eyck/Van Mieris family.
This would mean that the family of Jacob's grandfather (father's side) and his grandmother (also father's side) knew one another about 200 years before their marriage in 1907.
Jan Wandelaar could well be another link between the Van Eyck/Van Mieris family (his grandfather's ancestors) and the Delfos family (his grandmother's ancestors).
The first link was formed by Caspar Netscher.
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