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Vinkeles, Reinier
(b Amsterdam, 12 Jan 1741; d Amsterdam, 30 Jan 1816). Dutch draughtsman and engraver. He studied for some ten years with Jan Punt. Vinkeles was a member of four foreign academies and joined the Amsterdam Stadstekenacademie (City Drawing School) in 1762, becoming one of its directors as early as 1765. The same year he travelled to Brabant with Jurriaan Andriessen and Izaak Schmidt. In 1770 Vinkeles left for Paris, where he studied with Jacques-Philippe Lebas and also met the Dutch artists Hermanus Numan and Izaak de Wit (1744–1809). A year later, Vinkeles was back in Amsterdam, where he worked on innumerable stage and book illustrations, historical prints, topographical scenes (e.g. Corner House at Lime Market, 1765; Amsterdam, Gemeente Archf), engraved portraits, copies after paintings etc. The same year, he was invited by Catherine the Great of Russia to become director of the St Petersburg Academy of Arts but refused. Vinkeles’s oeuvre is estimated at over 3000 prints; while his enormous productivity may sometimes have led to superficiality, he was able, at his best (during the 1770s and 1780s), to maintain great spontaneity in his work. Among his best-known works are the engravings after well-known Old Masters for the Vignettes of Theatre Poetry by N. S. Winter and L. W. van Merken (1774, 1776).
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