Jan Caspar Philips

Jan Caspar Philips (1690–1775), was a German engraver who settled in Amsterdam.

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 at Egelantiersgracht.

References

Notes

^ "Johan Jacob Philips".
^ ^a ^b Jan Caspar Philips in the RKD

Sources

Jan Caspar Philips on GAMEO

External links

Media related to Jan Caspar Philips at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "Johan Jacob Philips".

[RKD-2] Jan Caspar Philips in the RKD

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