Light and shade played such fundamental roles in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish artists’ representation of the natural world that we may take for granted the complexity and ambiguity associated [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Dutch Art and Urban Cultures 1200-1700
After completing her 1986 doctoral dissertation on the decoration of town halls in the United Provinces, Elisabeth de Bièvre published a series of studies (notably “The Urban Subconscious: The Art of [...] Read More
Dutch Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen
This past spring (2016), there was much activity surrounding the Dutch pictures belonging to the British Royal Family who hold one of the largest and most significant private art collections in the [...] Read More
Cornelis van Poelenburch, 1594/5-1667: The Paintings
Cornelis van Poelenburch frequently signed his works Poelenburch or van Poelenburch but more often with the monogram C.P. Born in Utrecht between January 21, 1594 and January 21, 1595, he was the [...] Read More
Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age
In 1665, Jacob Jansz. Coeman, a Dutch painter working in Batavia (present day Jakarta), painted a portrait of a family group (Rijksmusem, Amsterdam). He shows the merchant Pieter Cnoll, his wife, [...] Read More
Masters of the Everyday. Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer
The British Royal family holds one of the world’s greatest private collections of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Over the years, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has been particularly generous in [...] Read More