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The Historical Museum De Bevelanden in Goes is the successor to the city of Goes’ former chamber of antiquities. In the 1860s, the city archivist separated the city’s archaeological collection from the archives. This collection includes city seals and guild silver. During the French occupation, the Goes funerary hatchments and beadle’s badges of the craft guilds were saved from the melting pot by the city of Goes. These pieces are works by H. Keyser, A. Sommerzee, I. de Passer, and F. Muntinck.
Additionally, the city’s collection holds four civic guard pieces from 1616, 1616, 1624, and 1665. The first three were painted by Cornelis W. Eversdijck, and the last by his son, Willem Eversdijck. Also by Cornelis Eversdijck are a portrait of Mayor Cornelis Jansz. Boone and a fragment of a lost civic guard piece. The city also owns two seventeenth-century paintings signed by the unknown artists W.G. Rolle and J. Reynhout, Saint George and the Dragon and View of Kloetinge, but here the imagery is more interesting than the quality of the brushwork.
Koen van Rooijen, Curator (april 2025)