GODERIS, Hans
(b. ~1600 Haarlem, d. ~1656 Haarlem)
Dutch painter, one of the seventeenth-century marine small masters. He was the pupil of Jan Porcellis, and some of his work owes a debt of style to Porcellis.
View of a Walled City
The painting depicts a walled city on an estuary with small vessels in the foreground. Traditionally but wrongly identified as Veere, this picture appears to portray a capriccio view of a Zealand seaport such as Veere, Middelburg and Vlissingen.