Portrait of an Officer

c. 06.1616

Born

after 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.

1641

Opens his own studio

After his father's death, Bol opens his own studio and establishes himself as an independent artist.

c. 1655

Commissions for the town hall and the Admiralty

Bol receives orders for two chimney pieces for rooms in the new town hall, designed by Jacob van Campen (now the Royal Palace on Dam Square), and four more for the Admiralty of Amsterdam.

after 1669

Gives up painting

From his second marriage on, no paintings by Bol are known, and he apparently withdrew from painting; the popularity he had enjoyed in the 1660s faded after 1669.

c. 07.1680

Died