Pieter Tanjé
Prolific 18th-century Dutch engraver
Pieter Tanjé was an 18th-century engraver from the Northern Netherlands. Tanjé was born in Bolsward. According to the RKD he was a shipmate for the shipping service between Bolsward and Amsterdam who engraved designs for snuff boxes in his free time. He was so successful with his snuff boxes that Jacob Folkema encouraged him to enroll at the Amsterdam Stadsacademie, which he did at the age of 24 and became the pupil of Bernard Picart, Jacob Houbraken, Cornelis Troost, and Jacob de Wit. He engraved over 100 plates for Johan van Gool's book of artist biographies called Nieuw Schouburg in 1750, working mostly from portrait sketches by Aart Schouman. He died in Amsterdam.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Bernard Picart Master
- Cornelis Troost Master
- Jacob de Wit Master
Artworks by this artist
- Liebespaar mit Genius und Putten
- Titelblatt, oben das Motiv der arkadischen Hirten Poussins, unten rechts Mose
- Liebespaar in einer Höhle
- Mars vor Venus kniend
- Design for an Ornamental Frame 18th century
- Andromeda, after Agostino Carracci 18th century
- Opferndes junges Paar
- Abduction of Europa
- Ein Krieger vor einer Göttin auf Wolken
- Stehende Kriegerin