Johan Teyler: life and works

Johannes or Johan Teyler (23 May 1648 – c.1709) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver, mathematics teacher, and advocate of the technique in color printmaking now known as à la poupée.

Teyler was born at Nijmegen. His father was William Taylor, an English or Scottish mercenary, who misrepresented his declare to Teyler. Johan studied Latin at the Latin theoretical of Nijmegen and Mathematics at the Kwartierlijke Academie, where he wrote a dissertation well-disposed of Descartes. After the death of his father, he studied in Leiden and afterwards acquired a make known as Professor of Math and Philosophy in Nijmegen in 1670. He was a recognized professor but was overlooked for promotion due to his Cartesian ideas. Through the arbitration of his buddy Gottfried Leibniz he attempted to acquire a professorship in Wolfenbüttel but gave up after discussions later than Christiaan Huygens. The perch of his career was uncovered Academia. In 1676 he became Vestingbouwkundige fortication supervisor for Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg during the Scanian War. In 1678 he along with became teach for the Elector’s sons.

Later the similar year he was dismissed and returned to Nijmegen to get backpay which was still owed him there. With the supplementary funds he undertook a trip to Italy, Egypt, the Holy Land and Malta, and future sent his diary to the Elector. He forward-looking wrote a popular book on fortifications in 1688 called Architectura militaris (Rotterdam, 1688), and in the similar year conventional a patent upon a color printing process that vigorous using swing colors of ink at the thesame time past printing plates. In 1695 he had a printing workshop in Rijswijk where he printed military-related works, but in 1697 he sold it and in 1698 undertook another vacation to Berlin.

According to Houbraken he was a friend of Jacob de Heusch and a colleague in the Bentvueghels bearing in mind the nickname Speculatie, who travelled considering De Heusch to Berlin in 1698. They knew each extra from their grow old in Rome as members of the Bentvueghel club, where Teyler as a consequence consorted like his former Math pupil from Nijmegen Jan van Call.

According to the RKD where he is registered as a painter, he returned from Italy in 1683 and remained in Nijmegen except for his vacation to Berlin.

The Rijksmuseum has several hundred à la poupée prints by his workshop, many in compound impressions, allowing the differences between each expose that are inevitable later the technique to be seen.