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Ferdinand Bol

Ferdinand Bol (1616 - 1680) was active/lived in Netherlands, Holland.  Ferdinand Bol is known for Portrait and figure painting.

Ferdinand Bol, a Dutch portrait, history scene and still-life painter who was a student of Rembrandt van Rijn, was born in Dordrecht,  Holland in 1616.  He studied in Rembrandt's studio around 1635, and this association had a strong influence on the early painting of Bol, but as he got older, his palette became increasingly lighter and distanced from his Master.

Bol was the son of a successful surgeon, and his early art training, before he studied with Rembrandt, was in his home town of Dordrecht.  The fact that in 1640, he was a legal witness to a document about Saskia, the wife of Rembrandt, suggests he was then a studio assistant and likely close to the family. 

By 1642, he set up his own studio in Amsterdam, and at first did painting that closely resembled Rembrandt's including portraits "with sitters posed by a window---and exotically costumed single figures." (Getty)  His paintings during this period so closely resemble   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1924 characters.]  Artist bio

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