first training by his father, an engraver; advanced training in Amsterdam since 1684
Germany
Verzeichniß wie seiner Kgl. Majestät in Preussen Posten in dero Residentz-Stadt Berlin ein- und ablaufen, 1708; Berliner Postkurse von 1708; Preussische Krönungsgeschichte 1702; Imagines scenicae Terentium illustrantes; Acta physico-medica Academiae Caesarae (Leopoldino-Carolinae) Naturae Curiosum (Nürnberg 1727-54) ;
Brandenburg Kurfürst (Duke) Friedrich III; since 1704 klg. Hof-Kupferstecher ; Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften
his father and brother ; draughtsman and artist -> Johann Friedrich Wentzel ; copperplate engraver Elias Christoph Heiß ;
landscape, topographical, technical, historical, and genre copperplate engraving ; portraiture;
cf. also Imagines Pontificum Romanorum ab S. Petro, 1727; on the return from a trip to England, J.G.W. & his brother were kidnapped by Algerian pirates: cf. Reisen und wunderbare Schicksale zweyen in Algierische Leibeigenschaft, 1767; Hofkupferstecher in Berlin; responsible for Akademie-Kalender
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