Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom was a Dutch Golden Age painter credited with being the founder of Dutch marine art or seascape painting. Beginning with the "birds-eye" viewpoint of earlier Netherlandish marin
Engraving of the artist, c. 1762.
Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602, 1617
View of Delft seen from the west; circa 1615: one of the earliest cityscapes in the Netherlands, and the earliest of Delft
Arrival of a Dutch Three master at Kronborg Castle, Helsingør
Hans Goderis was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom
…battles, ceremonial scenes and beach views introduced novel compositional devices to be taken up by younger Dutch marinists. The Haarlem marine painters Hans Goderis, Cornelis Verbeeck and Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen were all directly influenced by him. He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke and his…
Two ships leaving the harbour, with Hoorn in the background, Westfries Museum