Reinier Nooms

From the 1650s, Nooms started producing and initially publishing a series of etchings of ships and topographical views.

A widely travelled artist, Nooms visited Paris (1650-1652, 1656), Venice and possibly Berlin (1657), and journeyed along the coast of North Africa with Michiel de Ruyter (1661-1663).

In the 1650s, Nooms made a series of etchings of ships and topographical views characterized by a high degree of detail and precision.

These etchings were published by Cornelis Danckerts and Clement de Jonghe and served as an example to many artists.

One of Nooms' final works, from 1664, shows a view of the Amsterdam harbour, with the IJ bay and the 's Lands Zeemagazijn naval arsenal, now the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum (Netherlands Maritime Museum).

Reinier Nooms: Before the Battle of the Downs, c. 1639
The Zaagmolen Gate around 1663 when the Amsterdam city ramparts were renovated