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