Lambert Doomer was a Dutch Golden Age

Dutch Golden Age

The Golden Age was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first half is characterised by the Eighty Years' War till 1648...

 landscape painter.

Biography

Doomer was the third of nine children of Herman Doomer (1595–1650) and his wife Baertje Martens, who ran a successful business in ebony-veneer furniture. Lambert was trained as a furniture maker like his father, but seemed to enjoy drawing more than woodworking and he became an artist. It is not known who trained him, but since his father supplied frames for Rembrandt, he probably had access to a teacher within his father's network. Rembrandt painted portraits of his parents for their 25th wedding anniversary (at that time highly unusual!) in 1638.

Lambert Doomer painted copies of both of these paintings in 1644.
To finish his education, Lambert traveled to France with Willem Schellinks

Willem Schellinks

-Biography:He traveled to France with Lambert Doomer in 1646. After that he undertook another journey in 1661-1665 as the guide of Heere Jakob Thierry de Jong, a young gentleman on his Grand Tour. According to Houbraken, Schellinks compiled his drawings and notes about this last journey in three...

 who was three years younger than he was, in 1646. They both made extensive drawings of this trip and Schellinks drawings are kept in the Fondation Custodia in Paris, the foundation started by Frits Lugt

Frits Lugt

Frederik Johannes "Frits" Lugt , was a self-taught collector and connoisseur of Netherlandish drawings and prints and a selfless and tireless compiler of essential reference tools documenting Northern European prints and drawings, collectors' stamps and sale catalogues...

. Their destination was Nantes

Nantes

Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants....

, where two of Doomer's brothers lived, but they argued and split up. They then embarked on a trip to England, and though both were on the same ship, they are not mentioned in each other's journals.

Doomer seems to have done well as a painter. He was able to buy at auction a large amount of Rembrandt drawings and sketchbooks after that artist's bankruptcy in 1657. It is from his meticulous copies of these drawings that others concluded that he was a Rembrandt pupil, but that is not certain. In 1663 he made a trip down the Rhine all the way to Switzerland, and it wasn't until 1668, at the age of 44, that he married and settled in Alkmaar

Alkmaar

Alkmaar is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of Noord Holland. Alkmaar is well known for its traditional cheese market. For tourists, it is a popular cultural destination.-History:...

, where he made many drawings. At the end of his life he moved to Amsterdam in 1694, where he later died.