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Lambert Doomer (11 February 1624 – 2 July 1700) was a
File:Rembrandt van Rijn Harmen Doomer circa 1640.jpg, ''Herman Doomer'', 1638, New York,
Lambert Doomer painted copies of both of these paintings in 1644.
To finish his education, Lambert traveled to France with
/ref> They both made extensive drawings of this trip and Schellinks drawings are kept in the Fondation Custodia in Paris, the foundation started by
Doomer seems to have done well as a painter. He was able to buy at auction a large amount of Rembrandt drawings and sketchbooks after that artist's bankruptcy in 1657. It is from his meticulous copies of these drawings that others concluded that he was a Rembrandt pupil, but that is not certain. In 1663 he made a trip down the Lambert Doomer
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Lambert Doomer
at PubHist {{DEFAULTSORT:Doomer, Lambert 1624 births 1700 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from Amsterdam Pupils of Rembrandt
Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and art an ...
landscape painter.
Biography
Doomer was the third of nine children ofHerman Doomer
Herman Doomer or Hermann Dommers (1595 – 14 March 1650) was a Dutch Golden Age furniture and frame-maker who is best known today for his portrait by Rembrandt.
Life
He was born in Anrath, near Venlo, and married Baertje Martens from Naarden in ...
(1595–1650) and his wife Baertje Martens, who ran a successful business in ebony-veneer furniture. Lambert was trained as a furniture maker like his father, but seemed to enjoy drawing more than woodworking and he became an artist. It is not known who trained him, but since his father supplied frames for Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally co ...
, he probably had access to a teacher within his father's network. (One of them was Pieter Quast
Pieter Jansz. Quast (1605 or '06 – buried 29 May 1647) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, mostly producing small social genre paintings, ranging from elegant merry companies to guardroom scenes and (most numerous) groups of p ...
.) Rembrandt painted portraits of his parents for their 25th wedding anniversary, which was unusual at the time, in 1638.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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.
File:Rembrandt van Rijn Baertje Martens circa 1640.jpg, ''Baertje Martens'', 1638, St.Petersburg, Hermitage
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.
Willem Schellinks
Willem Schellinks (1623–1678), was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and etcher of landscapes and marine scenes and also a poet. Willem Schellinks was one of the most widely traveled Dutch artists of his time. He traveled along the Loire and the S ...
who was three years younger than he was, in 1646.Website with a map and Dutch summary with drawings by Doomer and Schellinks/ref> They both made extensive drawings of this trip and Schellinks drawings are kept in the Fondation Custodia in Paris, the foundation started by
Frits Lugt
Frederik Johannes "Frits" Lugt (Amsterdam 4 May 1884 – 15 July 1970 Paris), was a self-taught collector and connoisseur of Dutch drawings and prints and a selfless and tireless compiler of essential reference tools documenting Northern Europ ...
. Their destination was Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabit ...
, where two of Doomer's brothers lived, but they argued and split up. They then embarked on a trip to England, and though both were on the same ship, they are not mentioned in each other's journals.
Doomer seems to have done well as a painter. He was able to buy at auction a large amount of Rembrandt drawings and sketchbooks after that artist's bankruptcy in 1657. It is from his meticulous copies of these drawings that others concluded that he was a Rembrandt pupil, but that is not certain. In 1663 he made a trip down the Rhine
The Rhine ; french: Rhin ; nl, Rijn ; wa, Rén ; li, Rien; rm, label=Sursilvan, Rein, rm, label=Sutsilvan and Surmiran, Ragn, rm, label=Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader and Puter, Rain; it, Reno ; gsw, Rhi(n), including in Alsatian dialect, Al ...
all the way to Switzerland, and it wasn't until 1668, at the age of 44, that he married and settled in Alkmaar
Alkmaar () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland, about 30 km north of Amsterdam. Alkmaar is well known for its traditional cheese market. For tourists, it is a popular cultural destination. The ...
, where he made many drawings. At the end of his life he moved to Amsterdam in 1694, where he later died.in the RKD
References
External links
*Lambert Doomer
at PubHist {{DEFAULTSORT:Doomer, Lambert 1624 births 1700 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from Amsterdam Pupils of Rembrandt