View of a Walled City

Private collection

landscape

The painting depicts a walled city on an estuary with small vessels in the foreground. Traditionally but wrongly identified as Veere, this picture appears to portray a capriccio view of a Zealand seaport such as Veere, Middelburg and Vlissingen.

About the Artist

Hans Goderis

1600 – 1656

Dutch painter, one of the seventeenth-century marine small masters. He was the pupil of Jan Porcellis, and some of his work owes a debt of style to Porcellis.

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