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Folkema, Jacob [Isidor Coridon Fidelle]
(b Dokkum, 18 Aug 1692; d Amsterdam, bur 3 Feb 1767). Dutch printmaker and draughtsman. He was trained from an early age by his father Johannes Folkema, a goldsmith, and by Bernard Picart in Amsterdam. His earliest work is the engraving of the Virgin and Child (1707). He made mostly drawings and etchings but also one or two mezzotint portraits. He sometimes used the engraver’s burin to work over areas in shadow. The majority of his 300 or so prints are portraits, topographical views, frontispieces, book illustrations or vignettes. He etched a number of miniature portraits painted by his sister Anna Folkema (1695–1768), who was also an engraver, and contributed prints to the Dresden Gallery, a collection of reproductive engravings after masterpieces from the picture collection in Dresden. Although he worked mostly after other artists’ drawings and paintings, prints such as the illustrations to Cervantes (Amsterdam, 1731) are based on his own designs.
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