Jakob van der Schley
Illustration — 'Threshing of wheat by Hottentots' Jakob van der Schley aka Jakob van Schley (26 July 1715 Amsterdam – 7 February 1779 Amsterdam) was a Dutch draughtsman and engraver. He studied under Bernard Picart (1673-1733) whose style he subsequently copied. His main interests were engraving portraits and producing illustrations for "La Vie de Marianne" by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763), published in The Hague between 1735 and 1747.
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Jakob van der Schley
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- Dutch
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Illustration — 'Threshing of wheat by Hottentots' Jakob van der Schley aka Jakob van Schley (26 July 1715 Amsterdam – 7 February 1779 Amsterdam) was a Dutch draughtsman and engraver. He studied under Bernard Picart (1673-1733) whose style he subsequently copied. His main interests were engraving portraits and producing illustrations for "La Vie de Marianne" by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763), published in The Hague between 1735 and 1747.
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He also engraved the frontispieces for a 15-volume edition of the complete works of Pierre de Brantôme (1540-1614), "Oeuvres du seigneur de Brantôme", published in The Hague in 1740. Most of the plates in the Hague edition of Prévost's "Histoire générale des voyages" are signed by van der Schley. He cooperated with Prosper Marchand who owned many of his prints. One of his most famous print is L’Imprimerie, 1739.
Philippus van der Schley is recorded as having studied under Jakob van der Schley. The recorded working language is Dutch. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Work by Jakob van der Schley is recorded in the collections of Finnish National Gallery, National Museum of World Cultures, CODA Museum, Harvard Library and Elisabeth Orphanage Museum.
Jakob van der Schley is recorded as engraver, printmaker, draftsperson, etcher and art collector.
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1715
Jakob van der Schley born at Amsterdam.
1779
Jakob van der Schley died at Amsterdam.
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- 1.Emmanuel Bénézit titre. Gründ. 1939. 22103711 lire en.
- 2.Pierre de Bourdeille de Brantôme. Œuvres du seigneur de Brantôme. aux dépens du libraire. 1740. 502392662.
- 3.Fiche de l'œuvre Procession d’une nouvelle Mariée qui se rend chez son Mari. Bibliothèque du Congrès. 2014.
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- Thieme-Becker, « Schley » dans Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kùnstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 30, Leipzig, 1936, p. 108.
- Bénézit, 1976, vol. IV, p. 386.
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