Jan Damel
(1780–1840) Polish painter and caricaturist (1780–1840)
Jan Damel (1780–1840) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Jan Damel belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
Jan Damel was born in Jelgava and died in Minsk. Jan Damel trained at Vilnius University. The teachers included Franciszek Smuglewicz and Jan Rustem. Wikidata associates Jan Damel with Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Jan Damel became a member of Masonic lodge and North Torch.
The works belong mainly to the genres portrait, history painting, and religious art. The catalogue has 12 works by Jan Damel with free images. The dated works span the years 1800–1840. Works by Jan Damel are held by Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie and National Museum in Kraków.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Henry Salt, John Wesley Jarvis, Aleksej Venetsianov, Edward Hicks, and Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard.