Hendrick Jacobsz. Dubbels (1621-1707)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter of marine subjects and winter landscapes.

• Dubbels was born and lived his entire life in Amsterdam.

• He was the son of a diamond-cutter.

• He married in 1651 and again in 1656, when he described himself as a "painter", but he is described as a "shopkeeper" in 1663 and 1665, when he was made bankrupt. 

• His earliest dated work is a drawing from 1641, with a dated painting from 1643.

• His marine style was initially based on that of Jan Porcellis, then that of Simon de Vlieger in whose studio he worked c. 1650-3.

• The 1650s were the period of his best work, including his winter landscapes, which were strongly influenced by those of Jan van de Cappelle.

• He then worked for Willem van de Velde the Elder and his son Willem II until they left for London.

• In the late 1650s or early 1660s he trained Ludolf Bakhuizen, the leading Dutch marine painter of the last decades of the century, for whom he later worked.

• He was buried in the Nieuwe Zuids chapel on October 20, 1707.

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