35. Reiner Nooms, Called Zeeman
(ca. 1623-1664)
Harbor Scene with a Rowboat on the Right

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Zeeman, Harbor Scene

Harbor Scene with a Rowboat on the Right

Etching, ca. 1655, from 13 Naval Scenes, 192 x 301 mm., Bartsch 116, TIB 116 v/v, LeBlanc 41. A good posthumous impression on laid paper with good margins; a small stain in the left margin. Zeeman was the outstanding naval painter of his time, beginning his career rather late, after a reputed life as a drunken sailor (hence his nickname). His intimate knowledge of ships and his accuracy of representation, both in his paintings and his almost 200 etchings, are probably unmatched by any other artist, and he was both an influence on and an inspiration to the great French, nineteenth-century etcher Charles Meryon -- who also began his adult life as a sailor. It is interesting, and odd, that the set from which this print comes was originally printed and published in London, by a dealer named Arthur Tooker, whose imprint, even after all the subsequent Dutch editions, remains at the upper left corner of the plate.

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