Abraham meets the Three Angels
(c1662)
Ferdinand Bol
(Dordrecht, 1616 - 1680)
Genesis 18:1-15
1616 - 1680
Dordrecht
Ferdinand Bol was the son of a surgeon, Balthasar Bol, and 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.