About
Historians of Netherlandish Art is an international organization founded in 1983 to foster communication and collaboration among historians of Northern European art from medieval to modern times. Our primary focus is on Dutch, Flemish, German, and Franco-Flemish art and architecture, and material and visual culture in a worldwide context, from about 1350 to 1750, together with global and colonial networks of trade and artistic exchange, as they relate to the Low Countries. Our membership, comprising approximately 800 individuals and 30 institutions and businesses, includes scholars, educators, museum professionals, art dealers, publishers, book dealers, collectors, and liefhebbers throughout the world. If you are not already a member, please join HNA.
Mission
Historians of Netherlandish Art provides a forum for members to build collegiality, develop professional and collaborative opportunities, and share new research. We foster connection and inquiry through our conferences and other events, website, and the open-access Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art and Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews. HNA is committed to promoting diversity in membership and sustaining the growth and expansion of our field worldwide. We connect emerging scholars with mentors, provide equitably distributed fellowships, support the dissemination of new research, and cultivate a community-oriented space for meaningful dialogue.
Our History
HNA grew out of a national symposium on Netherlandish art held in the spring of 1982 at Memphis State University. Its initial research conference, held at the University of Pittsburgh in 1985, drew over two hundred participants from seven countries. The Pittsburgh meeting set the standard for nine further international conferences held in Cleveland (1989), Boston (1993), Baltimore (1998), Antwerp (2002), Baltimore/Washington (2006), Amsterdam (2010), Boston (2014), Ghent/Bruges (2018), and Amsterdam/The Hague (2022). The next HNA Conference will be held in London and Cambridge in 2024. HNA has been an affiliated society of the College Art Association since 1984, and was incorporated in New York State as a not-for-profit corporation in 1988. HNA sponsors the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (JHNA), founded in 2008, and the HNA Review of Books (HNAR).
Past Presidents
Carol Purtle (1983-85)
Laurinda Dixon (1985-87)
Anne Lowenthal (1987-89)
Barbara Haeger (1989-91)
Kahren Jones Arbitman (1991-93)
Ann M. Roberts (1993-95)
George Keyes (1995-99)
Larry Silver (1999-2001)
Alison McNeil Kettering (2001-05)
Wayne Franits (2005-09)
Stephanie Dickey (2009-13)
Amy Golahny (2013-17)
Paul Crenshaw (2017-2021)
Walter Melion (2021-2025)
Current Officers
Elizabeth A. Honig, President (2025-2029)
Department of Art History & Archaeology
University of Maryland
1211B Parren J. Mitchell-Art-Sociology Building
3834 Campus Drive
College Park, MD 20742
president@hnanews.org
Ashley West, Vice-President (2025-2029)
Department of Art History
Tyler School of Art & Architecture
Temple University
2001 North 13th Street, Suite 211
Philadelphia, PA 19122
vicepresident@hnanews.org
David Levine, US Treasurer
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent Street
New Haven CT 06515
ustreasurer@hnanews.org
Board Members
- Walter Melion, Emory University (Past-President, 2025-2029)
- Lizzie Marx, National Gallery of Ireland (2022-2026)
- Tine Luk Meganck, Vrije Universiteit Brussels (2022-2026)
- Jessica Keating, Carleton College (2022-2026)
- Marsely Kehoe, Independent Scholar (2022-2026)
- Stephanie Dickey, Queen’s University (2024-2028)
- Ethan Matt Kavaler, University of Toronto (2024-2028)
- Cynthia Kok, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Rijksmuseum (2024-2028)
- Isabella Lores-Chavez, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (2024-2028)
International Liaisons
Koen Bulkens
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (KMSKA) in Antwerpen
Angela Jager
RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History in Den Haag
Administrators
Saskia Beranek and Erin Downey
administrator@hnanews.org
About the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (JHNA)
About the HNA Review of Books (HNAR)
Image rotation on the front page:
Hessel Gerritz, published by Jodocus Hondius, Leo Belgicus (The Lion Looks Toward Spain), Amsterdam, 1611, 43 by 56 cm (17 by 22 in.), courtesy Daniel Crouch Rare Books, London and New York.
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, Flower Still Life, 1614, oil on copper, 30.5 x 38.9 cm (12 x 15 5/16 in.), Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum.
Lucas van Leyden, The Milkmaid, 1510, engraving, sheet: 11.9 x 15.7 cm (4 11/16 x 6 3/16 in.), New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rogier van der Weyden, Descent from the Cross, c.1435, oil on oak panel, 220 × 262 cm (86 1/2 x 103 in.), Madrid, Museo del Prado
Jacob Jordaens, Feast of the Bean King, c.1655, oil on canvas, 242 x 300 cm (95 1/4 x 118 in.), Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Website by Studio Rainwater, Providence, RI.