Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Herman Doomer
1640
Oil on wood, 75.2 x 55.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Herman Doomer was a successful cabinetmaker who worked with the imported ebony fashionable in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. The exceptional care Rembrandt took with this likeness may indicate his esteem for a fellow master artisan. At roughly the same time Rembrandt painted the portrait of Doomer and a companion piece of his wife (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg), the couple’s son Lambert was an apprentice in the artist’s studio. (MET)
Companion:
Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Portrait of Baertje Martens
c.1640
Hermitage Museums, Saint Petersburg
See also:
• Doomer, Herman (c.1595-1650)