Ernst Wilhelm Moes

Ernst Wilhelm Moes (1864 – 1912), was a Dutch art historian and director of the print cabinet for the Rijksmuseum.

According to the NNBW he studied art at the University of Amsterdam and became a print collector while still a student, specialized in Amsterdam history.

[1] To simplify his research, from 1885 he became a volunteer at the Amsterdam auction house of Frederik Muller.

His Iconographia, a comprehensive guide to portraits of Dutch people, was published by Frederik Muller & Co.

In 1898 he began work as assistant to Philip van der Kellen in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum and from 1903 until his death by tuberculosis he was the head of the print cabinet of the museum.