# Portrait of a Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BOL, Ferdinand]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 87 x 72 cm ## Commentary Ferdinand Bol entered Rembrandt's studio about 1636-37 and left Rembrandt around 1642 when he began working independently in Amsterdam where he settled for the rest of his life. His early painted portraits are very similar to the commissioned ones Rembrandt made in the late thirties and early forties and in them he successfully incorporates aspects of the transparent chiaroscuro the older master develops during these years. ## Related artworks - [A Scholar at his Desk]() - [Bacchus and Ariadne]() - [Elijah Fed by an Angel]() - [Governors of the Wine Merchant's Guild]() - [Jacob's Dream]() - [Lady with Pearls in her Hair]() - [Petronella Elias with a Basket of Fruit]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of a Man, Holding a White Plume]() - [Portrait of a Scholar]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() - [Portrait of Admiral Michiel Adriaensz. de Ruyter]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()