Jan Luyken (1649–1712)

• Was a Dutch poet, illustrator, and engraver.

• Jan Luiken made the engravings for the popular "sailor's bible" called "Lusthof des Gemoeds", by Jan Philipsz Schabaalje.

• He was born and died in Amsterdam, where he learned engraving from his father Kaspar Luyken.

• He was a child prodigy.

• Luyken married at 19 and had several children, including renowned engraver Caspar Luyken.

• At age 26 Luyken converted to the Mennonite church, which inspired him to write moralistic poetry.

• Luyken illustrated the 1685 edition of the Martyrs Mirror with 104 copper etchings.

• Thirty of these plates survive and were part of The Mirror of the Martyrs exhibit.

• He also published Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") in 1694, which contains numerous engravings of 17th-century trades by Luiken and his son Caspar (Caspaares).

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