Jacob Folkema
Jacob Folkema (18 August 1692 – 3 February 1767), a Dutch designer and engraver, was born and died in Dokkum, in Friesland. He was first instructed by his father, Johann Jakob Folkema, a goldsmith, and studied afterwards under B. Picart at Amsterdam. During that time he worked for Royaumont's Bible, 1712, and Ruysch's Anatomy, 1737.
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Jacob Folkema
Jacob Folkema · https: Gallery: https: Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-27) · CC BY 4.0
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- Dutch Republic
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- printmaker · draftsperson · engraver
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- Dutch
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Jacob Folkema (18 August 1692 – 3 February 1767), a Dutch designer and engraver, was born and died in Dokkum, in Friesland. He was first instructed by his father, Johann Jakob Folkema, a goldsmith, and studied afterwards under B. Picart at Amsterdam. During that time he worked for Royaumont's Bible, 1712, and Ruysch's Anatomy, 1737.
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Folkema was also an excellent engraver in mezzotint. He had a sister, Anna Folkema, who painted miniatures, assisted her brother, and engraved some few plates. Peter and St. Paul; after Niccolò dell'Abbate. • Several plates for the Dresden Gallery; after Le Brun and Niccolò dell'Abbate.
• Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra; after C. Kort. • Johannes Ens, Professor of Theology at Utrecht; after Colla. • Petrus de Maestricht, Professor of Theology at Frankfort; after the same. • Humphrey Prideaux, Dean of Norwich; after Seeman. • Suethlagius, Pastor at Amsterdam; after Anna Folkema. • Illustration — The Idolatry of the Golden Calf, dated around 1750, in collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland. • Illustration — Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes, 1768 • Illustration — Virgin with child and four saints, after Titian, ca. 1750, in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden.
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Jacob Folkema is recorded as printmaker, draftsperson and engraver.
Amsterdam Hospital, scene in a ward. Wellcome Images
Jacob Folkema · https: Gallery: https: Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-23)
Identificatie Titel(s): Allegorie op de verheffing van Willem IV tot stadhouder, 1747
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1692
Jacob Folkema born at Dokkum.
1767
Jacob Folkema died at Amsterdam.
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