At age ten Sandrart obtained his artistic training from his better-known uncle Joachim von Sandrart in Amsterdam.
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He was best known as a portraitist of prominent contemporary citizens of Nuremberg, as an engraver of maps, and as an illustrator of the literary works of Nuremberg writers, especially Sigmund von Birken.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Otto von Bismarck | Alexander von Humboldt | Jacob | Wernher von Braun | Carl Maria von Weber | John Jacob Astor | Herbert von Karajan | Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | John von Neumann | Jacob M. Appel | Lars von Trier | Jacob Epstein | Ferdinand von Mueller | Paul von Hindenburg | Jacob Zuma | Jacob Obrecht | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Heinrich von Kleist | Anne Sofie von Otter | Erich von Stroheim | Max von Sydow | Justus von Liebig | Hermann von Helmholtz | Franz von Papen | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Carl von Clausewitz | Von Ryan's Express | Richard von Weizsäcker | Jacob Lawrence |
Cornelis de Bie published his Het Gulden Cabinet in 1662, André Félibien published his Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellents peintres anciens et modernes in 1666, and these were followed by Jacob von Sandrart's illustrated Teutsche Akademie in 1668.