Jan Augustini

Jan Augustini Degelenkamp (16 November 1725 – 2 December 1773) was an 18th-century painter from the Dutch Republic.^[1]

Jan Degelenkamp
Born	16 November 1725 Groningen, The Netherlands
Died	2 December 1773(1773-12-02) (aged 48) Haarlem, Holland, Dutch Republic

Regent room in Museum van de Geest, a continuous landscape covering three walls, done by Augustini in 1756

Biography

According to the RKD, he was a landscape painter who made large wall decorations, many of which are still installed in the buildings for which they were designed.^[2] He was a pupil of Philip van Dijk in The Hague.^[2] He started his career working on pictures of flora for botanists, and contributed to the herbarium of the Leiden hortulanus Jacobus Schuurmans Stekhoven.^[3] His pupils were his son Jacobus Luberti Augustini, Egbert van Drielst, Hermanus Numan, Gabriël van Rooyen, and Hendrik Tavenier.^[2]