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17th-Century Dutch Republic

Jacob Backer (1608/9-1651)

By Peter van den Brink, Jaap van der Veen et al.

[Cat. exh. Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, November 29, 2008 – February 22, 2009; Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, March 12 – June 5, 2009.] Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2008. 270 pp, 339 illus. ISBN 978-90-400-8565-9

Review published November 2010

To secure a place in the history of art, it was not always useful to have been considered Rembrandt's pupil. Few seventeenth-century painters were as unfortunate posthumously as Jacob Backer. Due to [...] Read More

Painting Family: The De Brays, Master Painters of 17th-Century Holland

By Pieter Biesboer (ed.), with essays by Friso Lammertse, Pieter Biesboer, Fred C. Meijer; catalogue by Pieter Biesboer, Emilie Gordenker, Fred C. Meijer, Ariane van Suchtelen and Gerdien Wuestman

[Cat. exh. Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, February 2 – June 22, 2008; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, July 2 – October 5, 2008.] Zwolle: Waanders, 2008. 160 pp, 107 color, 22 b&w illus. ISBN 978-90-400-8446-1

Review published April 2010

This slim volume, which explores the work of four Haarlem artists, the history painter, architect and theoretician, Salomon de Bray, and his three sons, Jan, Joseph and Dirk, is a unique and quite [...] Read More

Two Publications on Dutch Cityscapes

By various authors
Review published April 2010

Ariane van Suchtelen and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age. Exh. cat. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, October 11, 2008 – January 11, 2009; National [...] Read More