Reinier Nooms (Alias Zeeman)
(Amsterdam? 1623/24 – 1664 Amsterdam)
“A Boeier or Boyer ship off a coast”, c. 1655
Oil on canvas (laid down on panel): 25 x 29,8 cm
Signed ‘R ZeeMan’ on the boyer’s leeboard at bottom left.
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Notes
Reinier Nooms, also known under hus alias Zeeman, was one of Amsterdam’s most prominent and famous marine painters of the seventeenth century.
This painting by the Amsterdam artist Reinier Nooms depicts the bustling activity characteristic of coastal waters. In this roadstead, we see inland vessels, single-masted craft, and fishing boats, alongside—further in the distance—larger three-masted ships lying at anchor. The vessel in the left foreground, likely a *boeier*, flies a red-and-white striped flag. Although these are the colors of the city of Hoorn, this flag appears so frequently on Dutch vessels that it does not necessarily indicate the ship’s place of origin. To the right, on a sandbank in the middle ground, fishermen are gathering mussels.
Provenance
- Private collection, France
- Drouot-Richelieu, 2015, France.
- London, Fergus Hall Ltd Gallery, 2016
- Inder Rieden Collection, 2016
Literature:
- Gerlinde de Beer, “The Golden Age of Dutch Marine Painting – The Inder Rieden Collection”, edited by Charles Dumas, Primavera Pers, Leiden 2019, Catalogue III, no. 44, page 712.
- Charles Dumas, Gerlinde de Beer, “In de ban van de zee – De Gouden Eeuw van de Nederlandse marineschilderkunst”, De Inder Rieden Collectie, Museum Bredius, 2019, Wilco, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, no. 49, with colour ill.
Exhibition:
Charles Dumas, Gerlinde de Beer, “In de ban van de zee – De Gouden Eeuw van de Nederlandse marineschilderkunst”, De Inder Rieden Collectie, Museum Bredius, 2019, Wilco, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, no. 49, with colour ill.