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Ferdinand Bol - The Captain of God’s Army Appearing to Joshua

The Captain of God’s Army Appearing to Joshua (1660 - 1663)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)
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The Artist died in 1680 so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries where the copyright term is the Artist's life plus 70 years or fewer.
Ferdinand Bol
About the Artist

Ferdinand Bol was a Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman. Although his surviving work is rare, it displays Rembrandt's influence; like his master, Bol favored historical subjects, portraits, numerous self-portraits, and single figures in exotic finery.

Ferdinand was born in Dordrecht as the son of a surgeon, Balthasar Bol. Ferdinand Bol was first an apprentice of Jacob Cuyp in his hometown and/or of Abraham Bloemaert in Utrecht. After 1630 he studied with Rembrandt, living in his house in Sint Antoniesbreestraat, then a fashionable street and area for painters, jewellers, architects, and many Flemish and Jewish immigrants. In 1641 Bol started his own studio.

In 1652 he became a burgher of Amsterdam, and in 1653 he married Elisabeth Dell, whose father held positions with the Admiralty of Amsterdam and the wine merchants' guild, both institutions that later gave commissions to the artist. Within a few years (1655) he became the head of the guild and received orders to deliver two chimney pieces for rooms in the new town hall designed by Jacob van Campen, and four more for the Admiralty of Amsterdam.

Around this time, Bol was a popular and successful painter. His palette had lightened, his figures possessed greater elegance, and by the middle of the decade he was receiving more official commissions than any other artist in Amsterdam. Godfrey Kneller was his pupil. Bol delivered four paintings for the two mansions of the brothers Trip, originally also from Dordrecht.

Bol's first wife died in 1660. In 1669 Bol married for the second time to Anna van Erckel, widow of the treasurer of the Admiralty, and apparently retired from painting at that point in his life. In 1672 the couple moved to Keizersgracht 672, then a newly designed part of the city, and now the Museum Van Loon. Bol served as a governor in a Home for Lepers. Bol died a few weeks after his wife, on Herengracht, where his son, a lawyer, lived.

Probably his best known painting is a portrait of Elisabeth Bas, the wife of the naval officer Joachim Swartenhondt and an innkeeper near the Dam square.

More Artwork by Ferdinand Bol (View all 48 Artworks)

Caritas; Joanna de Geer (1629-1691) with her Children Cecilia Trip (1660-1728) and Laurens Trip (b. 1662) (1662 - 1669)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Petronella Elias (1648–1667) with a Basket of Fruit (1657)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Portrait of a Young Man (1644)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Portrait of a lady at a casement (1652)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Woman at her Dressing Table (between 1643 and 1647)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Consul Titus Manlius Torquatus Orders the Beheading of his Son (1661 - 1663)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Portrait of a Man (1659)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Portrait of an Old Lady, Possibly Elisabeth Bas (c. 1640 - c. 1645)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

More Artwork by Ferdinand Bol (View all 48 Artworks)

Caritas; Joanna de Geer (1629-1691) with her Children Cecilia Trip (1660-1728) and Laurens Trip (b. 1662) (1662 - 1669)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Petronella Elias (1648–1667) with a Basket of Fruit (1657)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Portrait of a Young Man (1644)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Portrait of a lady at a casement (1652)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Woman at her Dressing Table (between 1643 and 1647)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Consul Titus Manlius Torquatus Orders the Beheading of his Son (1661 - 1663)

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)
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