Obituary: Pieter van Thiel
Pieter van Thiel, eminent scholar of Dutch and Flemish
art, former director of paintings at the Rijksmuseum and member
of the Rembrandt Research Project, passed away August
1, 2012. He is known for a number of important exhibitions,
his catalogue All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam,
published in 1976 with a supplement in 1992, and his monograph
on Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (1999). He was
co-author of the first three volumes of the Corpus of Rembrandt
Paintings. After his retirement from the Rijksmuseum in 1991 he
also left the Rembrandt Research Project in 1993.