Dr. Alfred Bader, a preeminent collector and supporter of the study of Dutch art, and particularly Rembrandt and his circle, passed away on December 23, 2018. He was 94 years old. He was a [...] Read More
HNA News
Joost Taverne Interview
On July 16, 2018, HNA vice-president Louisa Wood Ruby interviewed Joost Taverne, the recently-appointed Cultural Attaché for the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York. Her first question [...] Read More
Rijksmuseum Fellowship Program
The purpose of the Fellowship Program is to encourage and support scholarly investigation, and to contribute to academic discourse while strengthening bonds between the museum and universities. The [...] Read More
CFP: Midwest Art History Society 2019 Annual Conference
The Midwest Art History Society (MAHS) will hold its 46th Annual Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio from March 21–23, 2019, with sessions hosted by the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) and Taft Museum of Art [...] Read More
Special Issue of Oud Holland: Netherlandish Art History in the Long Nineteenth Century
CFP Deadline: Dec 7, 2018 In History and its Images (1993), Francis Haskell argued that the “rediscovery” of early Netherlandish painting in the nineteenth century played a vital role in the [...] Read More
Brill Discount for Members
Brill is partnering with Historians of Netherlandish Art to offer a special 25% discount on all volumes from the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art and from the Studies in Netherlandish Art and [...] Read More
Making Art, Making Meaning in Fifteenth-Century Flanders
A workshop organized in conjunction with the exhibition The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos at the Frick Collection [...] Read More
Craig Stephen Harbison (1944-2018)
Craig Stephen Harbison, age 74, died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest on May 17, 2018 in his home in Hadley, Massachusetts. A prominent scholar of Northern Renaissance Art, Craig taught art history for [...] Read More
CFP: HNA-Sponsored Session RSA 2019 Toronto
Netherlandish Art and Artists in Spain, 1400-1600 “When the Spanish vessels from India are suffered from the English pirates or other bad fortunes, and when the Spanish parcels cannot be dispatched [...] Read More
Call for Proposals to Host HNA Conference in 2021 and 2024
At our annual meeting in February 2018, the board of Historians of Netherlandish Art voted to change the interval of the HNA Conference to a triennial format. With this change of frequency in view, [...] Read More
Maurithuis Rediscovers Jan Steen Painting
The Mocking of Samson, a painting in the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), has been reattributed to Jan Steen after undergoing technical examination at the Mauritshuis. The [...] Read More
Summer School: Museum objects as Evidence
Amsterdam, July 9 - 20, 2018 Deadline for Applications: Mar 18, 2018 From 9-20 July 2018 the Rijksmuseum, the University of Amsterdam and the Bard Graduate Center, will collaborate in offering a [...] Read More
Invitation to Exhibition Opening in Aachen
Peter van den Brink, Director of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen, invites HNA members to the Opening of the Exhibition MEETING BARTHOLD SUERMONDT – A NEW TASTE FOR THE ARTS. The event will be [...] Read More
Smith College Museum Acquires New Rembrandt Prints
The Smith College Museum of Art announced that it has received a transformative gift from Mary Gordon Roberts (Smith class of 1960) of two impressions of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn’s The Three [...] Read More
Discount for all HNA Members
All members of the Historians of Netherlandish Art can receive a 50% discount on all monographs in the series Aetas Aurea. Offer valid through March 2018. In order to receive the discount, please [...] Read More