Andreas Rheinhold Dolep, 'Dutchman' was one of the most important London gunmakers of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries. He was born in about 1648. In 1681 he worked for Sir Philip Howard, Commander of the Queen's Troop of Horse, and was fined in 1686 for unproved guns, but made free of the Gunmakers' Company by redemption in the same year at the request of Lord Dartmouth. He was granted denization in 1691 and married in 1687. He died in 1713

Dolep made fine and ingenious firearms, many of them multi-shot. For a description of further examples of his work see W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, pp. 228-248, plates 83-86, and 88-91