Lambert Doomer

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Lambert Doomer: Le Pont des Treilles sur la Maine à Angers, vu d'amont (around 1646, Louvre , Paris )

Lambert Doomer (born February 11, 1624 in Amsterdam ; † July 2, 1700 there ) was a Dutch baroque painter . (The exact date of birth is not known, several sources also mention 1622 or 1623 as the year of birth; the date given here is usually given as the date of birth, but is actually the date of baptism).

Lambert Doomer was the third of nine children of the German carpenter Herman Doomer (originally: Hermann Dommers, * 1595 in Anrath , † 1650 in Amsterdam), who came to Amsterdam in 1613, and his wife Baertjen Martens.

Doomer's father specialized in the processing of ebony and mainly made picture frames , which he also supplied to Rembrandt van Rijn . In 1640 the couple had themselves painted by Rembrandt in individual portraits (the paintings are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and in the St. Petersburg Hermitage ). Lambert Doomer initially trained as a carpenter with his father, but became Rembrandt's pupil in 1640 and worked in his workshop for a while. During this time, Rembrandt's Night Watch was created , so Doomer's collaboration on this picture is likely.

Lambert Doomer: Dymbkes poort tot Anraet (ca.1664, British Museum , London )

Doomer made several trips, including:

  • 1646 together with his friend, the painter Willem Schellinks (* 1627, † 1678) to Nantes (from Rouen the two separated after a dispute)
  • in the same year to England, where he painted the first known landscapes of the Isle of Wight
  • 1663/64 along the Rhine to Switzerland, where he visited the birthplace of his father Anrath , among other things

Doomer himself was also an art collector and in 1657/1658 acquired many of his drawings and sketchbooks in an auction after Rembrandt's bankruptcy.

On August 24, 1668 he married Metje Harmens; from 1669 to 1695 the couple lived in Alkmaar in the north of Holland. Numerous drawings were made between 1671 and 1673, of which more than three hundred have survived today, making up about a quarter of his surviving work. Doomer spent the last years until his death in 1700 in Amsterdam.

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  1. ^ Herman Doomer in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. ↑ Tour de France - 1646
  3. ↑ The trip to France at kunst.nl

Further sources:

literature

  • Wolfgang Schulz: Lambert Doomer - Complete Drawings Berlin 1974
  • Wolfgang Schulz: From Anrath to Amsterdam: the Doomers, Heimatbuch des Kreis Viersen, vol. 54 (2003)

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SURNAME Doomer, Lambert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1624
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1700
Place of death Amsterdam