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REYNIER NOOMS, CALLED ZEEMAN (C. 1623-1667)
Two vessels being careened for repairs
RCIN 906277
Nooms worked as a sailor on Dutch merchant vessels before he became a painter, and he thus often signed his works ‘Zeeman’, the Dutch for ‘Seaman’. Marine painting was a very popular genre in Dutch art of the seventeenth century, reflecting the importance
of maritime trade to the republic.