Herman Doomer Art Print watermanwood whose tail has just slapped

whose tail has just slapped a half-dozen whale-boats into perdition

" as he called them

he is depicted as an amputee possibly seeking his pension in the same office where he first enlisted

Artist: Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch

The sewing materials and the act of clipping nails probably suggest domestic virtues of a kind often associated with widowhood

Herman Doomer Art Print watermanwood whose tail has just slappedRembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) Dutch 1640 Herman Doomer was a successful cabinetmaker who worked with the imported ebony fashionable in seventeenth century Amsterdam. The exceptional care Rembrandt took with this likeness may indicate his esteem for a fellow master artisan. At roughly the same time Rembrandt painted the portrait of Doomer and a companion piece of his wife (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg), the couples son Lambert was an