Lot 18
Hans Goderis(Haarlem circa 1595-circa 1659)A Kaag ferry and other vessels in coastal waters
3 December 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£12,000 - £18,000
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Hans Goderis (Haarlem circa 1595-circa 1659)
A Kaag ferry and other vessels in coastal waters
oil on panel
18 x 23.3cm (7 1/16 x 9 3/16in).
oil on panel
18 x 23.3cm (7 1/16 x 9 3/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 April 1987, lot 165, ill (as Attributed to Bonaventura Peeters)
Private Collection
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 December 2003, lot 141, ill (as Hans Goderis)
With Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder Gallery, The Hague, 2003-2004, from whom acquired by
Mr and Mrs Anthony Inder Rieden
Collection of a Family Trust
Literature
G. de Beer, The Golden Age of Dutch Marine Paintings. The Inder Rieden Collection, Leiden, 2019, vol. 1, pp. 308-311, cat. no.11, ill
Little is known of the early life and training of Hans Goderis. We do know, however, that he grew up in Haarlem in a Mennonite family and that his father was employed in the cloth trade. It is possible that Hans worked in the studio of Jan Porcellis after the latter moved to Haarlem in 1622, as there are points of stylistic comparison between the two artists. The present painting, for instance, has parallels in Porcellis's somewhat larger oil on panel of Ships on a ruffled sea illustrated by Gerlinde de Beer in The Golden Age of Dutch Marine Paintings. The Inder Rieden Collection, Leiden, 2019, vol. 1, p. 226, cat. no. 4, ill. What we do know for sure is that Goderis was established as a painter by 1623 when he is listed in the Haarlem Guild of St Luke.
Opinions have been voiced in the past that Goderis did not work as a professional artist, a misconception that was based on the fact that only a small number of works appear to have been produced by him over a life that was thought to have spanned some fifty years. Gerlinde de Beer has unearthed documents of the period that show he actually died prior to 1638 when he was in his 30s, and the period of his professional artistic output may in fact have spanned as little as ten years, explaining the relative rarity of his works.