Jan Tengnagel

Jan Tengnagel (baptised 9 September 1584– buried 23 March 1635) was a Dutch draughtsman and painter.

Jan Tengnagel is one of the lesser known history painters of the early seventeenth-century group in Amsterdam centered around Pieter Lastman, who were of great importance to Dutch painting.

[citation needed] Tengnagel born and died in Amsterdam, but traveled and lived in Rome, Italy, between 1608 and 1611.

In the summer of 1608 he was in Rome and in 1611 he married a sister of the painters Jan and Jacob Pynas.

That he was well-known is evident from mentions of him as an eminent painter in two publication of that time; [2] and B.Gerbier, "Een ende Claght-Dicht Ter Eeren van de lofweerdigen Hernritus Goltzius, Den Haag 1620.