Jacobus Stellingwerff
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Jacobus Stellingwerff was an 18th century artist from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

According to the RKD he was a pen draughtsman who made topographical sketches for prints in the style of Roelant Roghman
Roelant Roghman
Roelant Roghman was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.-Biography:Roghman was born in Amsterdam, the son of the engraver Henrick Lambertsz Roghman and Maria Jacobs Savery. His mother was a daughter of the Savery family, and Roghman became a student of his namesake and great-uncle, Roelant...

 and his sisters. He married Antonina Houbraken
Antonina Houbraken
Antonina Houbraken , was an 18th century artist from the Northern Netherlands.-Biography:She was the daughter of Arnold Houbraken, who assisted him and her brother Jacob with his prints for his Schouburg...

, who assisted him in his business. Most of his work, which was copied from sketches by other (sometimes not very accurate) various artists drawing from real life can be seen in the topographical atlas of Matthaeus Brouërius van Nidek.
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