On August 7, 2017, Ronni Baer received the honor of Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau in a ceremony held at the home of Dolph Hogewoning, Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the [...] Read More
HNA News
Montreal Receives Hornstein Collection of Old Masters
The collection of old masters by Michal and Renata Hornstein (both passed away in 2016) has been donated to the Montreal Museum of Art where it is exhibited in a new pavilion entitled The Renata and [...] Read More
Friedländer 3.0 database of Flemish Primitives Launched
On June 8, 2017 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, on the occasion of the 150th birthday of Max J. Friedländer, the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA, Brussels) presented the Friedländer [...] Read More
Primacy of the Image. A Career Celebration for Larry Silver
Conference Primacy of the Image. A Career Celebration for Larry Silver Kislak Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 20, 2017. The Department of the History of Art at [...] Read More
Lara Yeager-Crasselt Appointed Curator of the Leiden Collection
Lara Yeager-Crasselt, formerly Interim Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, has been appointed Curator of the Leiden Collection, New York. [...] Read More
Angela Jager Receives Marie Curie Fellowship
Angela Jager has received a Marie Curie Fellowship documenting and researching a private collection of mostly Netherlandish paintings in Ledreborg (Denmark). [...] Read More
Teréz Gerszi Awarded a Knighthood of the Order of Oranje-Nassau
Teréz Gerszi was awarded a Knighthood of the Order of Oranje-Nassau for her research on Netherlandish and Dutch drawings. Among her many publications are the two catalogues on 16th-century [...] Read More
Elizabeth Gebauer Named Rubenianum Fellow
Elizabeth Gebauer, Princeton University, is the 2016-17 Rubenianum Fellow at the Rubenianum, Antwerp. Her dissertation topic is The Power of Speech: Flemish Baroque Pulpits, 1650-1750. [...] Read More
Thomas Campbell Resigns as Director of Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thomas Campbell, an expert in tapestries, resigned from his position as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on February 28, 2017. He will step down June 30, 2017. (New York Times, [...] Read More
Douglas Brine Accepts Scholarship
Douglas Brine, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, has accepted a 2016-17 J. Clawson Mills Scholarship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to undertake research and writing for his book [...] Read More
John Bezold Receives Grant to Research Mauritshuis Acquisition History
John Bezold received a grant to undertake an analysis of the acquisitions of the Mauritshuis collection made after 1945 which will result in an article and one or more lectures. [...] Read More
Stijn Alsteens Moves to Christie’s Paris
Stijn Alsteens, formerly Curator of Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York was appointed International Head of the Department of Old Master Drawings at Christie’s, Paris, as of November [...] Read More
Rik Vos Passes Away
Rik Vos (1941-2016) passed away December 24, 2016. He was the former Director of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (now the Cultural Heritage Agency) and a founding member of CODART. [...] Read More
HNA at CAA New York 2017
At the HNA reception at Syracuse University's Lubin House on February 17, 2017, the following new officers were introduced: Paul Crenshaw as president and Louisa Wood Ruby as vice-president. Paul was [...] Read More
Class Distinctions Study Day in Boston 2015
Photographs from the Study Day, MFA Boston, in conjunction with the exhibition “Class Distinction: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer,” October 5, 2015, and the royal visit at the [...] Read More