Jan Caspar Philips

Jan Philips
Philips by Tibout Regters, 1747
Born	1690
Died	1775 (aged 84–85) Amsterdam, Holland, The Netherlands

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 in Amsterdam.

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• Jan Caspar Philips on GAMEO

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• Media related to Jan Caspar Philips at Wikimedia Commons