Herman Doomer (1595–1650), portrait painting by Rembrandt, 1640

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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.

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Size: 3868px × 4800px
Location: MMA, USA
Photo credit: © ICP / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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