Johannes Vingboons

Johannes remained unmarried and lived with a large part of his family in an Amsterdam house and studio on Sint Antoniesbreestraat, on the corner of Hoek Salamandersteeg.

From about 1640 until his death Johannes was a mapmaker, and a watercolourist in the service of the Amsterdam map publisher Joan Blaeu.

By combining his traditional expertise as a cartographer with his artistic qualities as a watercolourist, he produced water colors of exotic lands based on scrupulous research.

Four signed parchment world maps form part of the collection of the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam.

Vingboons draws the world of the 17th century) in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, organized in cooperation with the Nationaal Archief.

Map of California as an island . c. 1650 . Restored version.
The house on the left was the Vingboons residence and the gap between the two houses is the Salamandersteeg.
Johannes Vingboons, View of New Amsterdam , 1664.