Ferdinand BolDutch, 1616–1680A Young Man
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Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, United States
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- Accession number
- R1021
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- Harvard Art Museums
- Image: Harvard Art Museums — © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Meanwhile, in the life of Ferdinand Bol
The whole lifeafter 1635
Apprenticed in Rembrandt's workshop
After December 1635, when Bol is still recorded in Dordrecht as a painter, he works as an apprentice in Rembrandt's Amsterdam workshop (other accounts say already after 1630) and lives in his house. He followed his master so closely that many of his paintings were long attributed to Rembrandt himself, and Rembrandt even sold his pupil's work.
1636–1641
Teacher: Rembrandt
1636–1680 · Workplace
Amsterdam
1641
Opens his own studio
After his father's death, Bol opens his own studio and establishes himself as an independent artist.
1641
Pupil: Cornelis Bisschop
1641
Death of his father, Balthasar Bol
Balthasar Bol, chief surgeon of Dordrecht, dies; Rembrandt had painted his portrait when he came to Amsterdam to visit his son.
