Ferdinand Bol
{{Short description|Dutch painter (1616-1680)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Ferdinand Bol
| image = Ferdinand Bol.Self-portrait.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| alt =
| caption = Self-portrait (c. 1669) by Ferdinand Bol
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date |1616|6|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = Dordrecht, Netherlands
| death_date = {{death date and age |1680|8|24|1616|6|24|df=y}}
| death_place = Herengracht, Netherlands
| nationality = Dutch
| known_for = Painting, ethching, draftsman
| training =
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| notable_works = Portrait of Elisabeth Bas
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| signature = Bol, Ferdinand 1616-1680 03 deWP.jpg
| spouse = Elisabeth Dell (m. 1953; died1660)
Anna van Erckel (m. 1669; died 1680)
}}
Ferdinand Bol (24 June 1616 - 24 August 1680) 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.[http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=265 Ferdinand Bol biography, Getty Museum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607083229/http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=265 |date=2011-06-07 }}
Biography
Ferdinand was born in Dordrecht as the son of a surgeon, Balthasar Bol.Twenty years later visiting Ferdinand, Balthasar was painted by Rembrandt. 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.Immediate neighbors included Hendrick van Uylenburg, who rented from Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy, and Govert Flinck. Pieter Lastman and David Vinckboons lived across the bridge. 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.Biography, Getty Museum Godfrey Kneller was his pupil.Blankert, A. (1976) Ferdinand Bol. Bol delivered four paintings for the two mansions of the brothers Trip, originally also from Dordrecht.Schwartz, G. (1984) Rembrandt, zijn leven, zijn schilderijen, (= his life, his paintings) p. 206.
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.Crenshaw, P. (2006) Rembrandt's Bankruptcy. The artist, his patrons and the art market in seventeenth-century Netherlands, p. 40. 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. This and many other of his paintings would in the 19th century be falsely attributed to his master Rembrandt.
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Gallery (selected works)
File:ElisabethBas.jpeg|Portrait of Elisabeth Bas, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
File:Ferdinand Bol 004.jpg|Pyrrhus shows his elephant to Fabritius, Royal Palace of Amsterdam
File:Bol Man in golden helmet.jpg|Man in golden helmet (Mars), National Museum, Warsaw
File:Portret van een man Rijksmuseum SK-A-43.jpeg|Portrait of a Man, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
File:Ferdinand Bol - A Lady with a Fan.jpg|A Lady with a Fan, National Gallery, London
File:Ferdinand Bol - An Astronomer.jpg|An Astronomer, National Gallery, London
File:Governors of the Wine Merchant's Guild.jpg|Governors of the Wine Merchant's Guild, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
{{wikisourcepar|Century Magazine/Volume 49/Issue 6/Old Dutch Masters. Ferdinand Bol|an overview of Bol's life and work}}
Notes
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160425011752/https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/explore-the-collection/overview/ferdinand-bol Ferdinand Bol page] at the Rijksmuseum's web site with the famous portrait of Elisabeth Bas.
- [https://www.pubhist.com/person/107/ferdinand-bol Works and literature] at PubHist
- [http://www.sternburg-stiftung.de/gemaelde/popup_13.html Portrait of a gentlemen]
- [http://www.let.uu.nl/nederlands/nlren/educatief/studentenmateriaal/bestuur/bestuur6.html Two paintings by Bol for the townhall, click "verder" to see the second one]
- [http://www.art-drawing.ru/gallery/category/120-bol-ferdinand-baltasars Ferdinand Bol. Paintings]
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Category:Dutch Golden Age printmakers
Category:Dutch Golden Age painters