Herman Doomer or Hermann Dommers (1595 – 14 March 1650) was a
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 Dutch art, ...
furniture and frame-maker who is best known today for his portrait by
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 consid ...
.
Life
He was born in
Anrath
Willich () is a town in the district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is 20 km west of Düsseldorf, 14 km north of Mönchengladbach, 10 km south of Krefeld, about 30 kilometres east of the border with the Netherlands and 45 km ...
, near Venlo, and married Baertje Martens from Naarden in 1618. He ran a successful business in ebony-veneer furniture and frames in the
Kalverstraat
The Kalverstraat (, ) is a busy shopping street of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. The street runs roughly North-South for about 750 meters, from Dam Square to Muntplein square.
The Kalverstraat is the most expensive shopping stree ...
, Gasthuismolensteeg and Hartenstraat. By 1625 Doomer already played a prominent role within the group of Amsterdam ebony workers. At times he collaborated with
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 ...
and
Johannes Lutma
Janus, or Johannes Lutma the elder ( Emden, ca. 1584 – Amsterdam, January 1669) was a well-known Dutch silversmith. Biography
He was a pupil of Paulus van Vianen who was known for his auricular style in silver, so-called for its smooth, e ...
. From 1641 he used colored
baleen
Baleen is a filter-feeding system inside the mouths of baleen whales. To use baleen, the whale first opens its mouth underwater to take in water. The whale then pushes the water out, and animals such as krill are filtered by the baleen and ...
.
Doomer was buried at
Nieuwezijds Kapel
Nieuwezijds Kapel (Dutch - New Side's Chapel), or Heilige Stede (Dutch - holy site) or Chapel of the Heilige Stede refers to a site in Amsterdam that includes shops and a Dutch Reformed church built in 1908 on the site of a church once called the ...
as his widow (1596-1678).
His son
Lambert Doomer
Lambert Doomer (11 February 1624 – 2 July 1700) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Biography
Doomer was the third of nine children of Herman Doomer (1595–1650) and his wife Baertje Martens, who ran a successful business in ebon ...
, a landscape painter, assisted the mother in the business. He inherited both portraits and made copies for his siblings.
[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/herman-doomer-15951650-rembrandts-frame-maker-100042]
Pendant portrait
File:Gasthuismolensteeg 11 top.JPG, Gasthuismolensteeg 11 top
File:Gasthuismolensteeg 13 top.JPG, Gasthuismolensteeg 13 top
File:Rembrandt van Rijn Baertje Martens circa 1640.jpg, ''Portrait of Baertje Martens'', St.Petersburg, Hermitage.
Furniture
Kast, Herman Doomer, ca. 1635 - ca. 1645 (BK-1975-81).jpg
Herman doomer, stipo con tulipani, 1635-50 ca.jpg
Cabinet MET DP278525.jpg
Cabinet MET DP267310.jpg
Cabinet MET DP278146.jpg
References
External links
* https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/artists/herman-doomer
* https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/BK-1978-188
* https://www.phoogendijk.com/Furniture/A-rare-cupboard-attributed-to-Herman-Doomer
* https://www.codart.nl/acquisitions/rijksmuseum-acquires-monumental-ebony-cabinet-by-herman-doomer/
1595 births
1650 deaths
People from Viersen (district)
Woodworkers
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