Who is Jan de Beijer?

Jan de Beijer (24 September 1703 – c. 1780), also complete as Jan de Beyer, was a Dutch draughtsman and painter known for this drawings of towns and buildings in the present-day countries of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In total, he produced some 1500 drawings, over 600 of which were reproduced as engravings by supplementary artists.

De Beijer travelled through the Netherlands in summertime to charisma views of cities and towns as skillfully as castles and supplementary buildings. In the wintertime, he would retire to his house to manufacture colour drawings based on his sketches in the field, as without difficulty as drawings that could be used by other artists to manufacture engravings.

Drawings by Jan de Beijer and engravings based upon his doing can be found in numerous museums, archives, and private collections. In Amsterdam, the Joods Historisch Museum has a 1765 drawing of the Grote Synagoge and Nieuwe Synagoge, two of the synagogues making occurring the highbrow that now houses the museum. Also, the Amsterdam Museum has a drawing of the now-demolished tower Haringpakkerstoren.

In 1999, the Historisch Museum Arnhem in Arnhem devoted an exhibition to be in by Jan de Beijer.

Jan de Beijer was born in Switzerland to Johan Jacob de Beijer (1654–1719) and his wife Maria Barbara Huisch. His daddy was a Dutch governor who was in Switzerland to hire mercenaries for the army of the Dutch Republic. At the age of six, he moved like his parents to Emmerich on the Dutch-German border.

Around 1722 he moved to Amsterdam to study following Cornelis Pronk, who was considered the most important topographical draughtsman of his time. De Beijer lived for some years in Vierlingsbeek, near Boxmeer. Sometime after 1750 he returned to Amsterdam, where he normal further suggestion from Jan Maurits Quinkhard who, like Pronk, had been a pupil of Arnold Boonen. In Amsterdam, he founded a draughtsmen’s society. He was supple as an artiste until 1769 and later retired to a small town near Kleve upon the Dutch-German border, where he died. According to some sources he died on 15 February 1780 in Emmerich, although Doesburg is in addition to mentioned as his place of death.