At the eastern end of the Oosterscheldt estuary sits the little Brabantine town of Bergen op Zoom. The town’s picturesque nature is attested to in that so many Dutch painters of the medieval, Golden Age and baroque eras – as varied as Abel Grimmer, Gerard Houckgeest, Bartram de Fouchier and Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert – were either born in or did significant work in Bergen. The composer of sacred music Jacob Obrecht was born in the town in the 1450s and Erasmus of Rotterdam even lived and worked here under his patron, the local lord, Jan II “Big Lips” van Glymes.