Herman Doomer (1640)

Rembrandt (1606-1669)

Herman Doomer
1640
Oil on wood, 75.2 x 55.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew 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 MuseumsSaint Petersburg

 

 

See also:

• Doomer, Herman (c.1595-1650)