The Western Australian Museum holds a unique collection of 17th century Amsterdam silverware that was found in the shipwreck of the Dutch East India Company’s (VOC) flagship Batavia. According [...] Read More
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National Museum in Stockholm Acquires Two Flemish Masterpieces
The Nationalmuseum has acquired two important oil paintings by Frans Francken the Younger and Daniel Seghers, both influential artists in seventeenth-century Antwerp, the Golden Age of Flemish art. [...] Read More
Bavarian State Returns Nine Nazi-Looted Artworks, Including Two Dutch Paintings
On Monday 5 August, the Bavarian State Minister of the Arts Bernd Sibler, together with the Bavarian State Painting Collections, the Bavarian National Museum and the State Collections of Prints and [...] Read More
First Jan van de Velde (III) Painting to Enter the National Gallery of Art’s Collection
The National Gallery of Art in Washington has recently acquired its first work by one of the great still-life painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Jan van de Velde III (1620–1662), who specialized in [...] Read More
Lecture: Humor in Sixteenth-century Painting
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam August 9th, 2019 7:00 p.m. What was considered funny in the sixteenth century, and what techniques did painters use at the time to elicit laughter? In this lecture, Friso [...] Read More
Kingdom of the Netherlands Establishes Endowment Fund in Support of Center for Netherlandish Art at MFA Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced July 23rd that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has shared its intent to establish a permanent endowment fund in [...] Read More