The “lost” portrait of the Duke of Buckingham by Peter Paul Rubens was rediscovered in Glasgow Museum’s collection, on display at Pollok House. The painting was believed to be a copy of a [...] Read More
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The Chatsworth House Trust has acquired ‘A View of Chatsworth’ by Jan Siberechts, painted c. 1703
Previously catalogued as a painting by an anonymous seventeenth-century English painter, A View of Chatsworth was recently cleaned. Following the restoration, the painting was attributed to the [...] Read More
The Return of the Holy Family from Jerusalem by Peter Paul Rubens and workshop was returned in June 2017
The Return of the Holy Family from Jerusalem by Peter Paul Rubens and workshop was returned in June 2017 after 240 years to the church of St. Charles Borromeo (former Jesuit Church) in Antwerp for [...] Read More
A long-lost still life by Balthasar van der Ast has been returned to the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum on July 10, 2017
On the fascinating story of how this painting found its way home after disappearing in the 1940s, see the CODART [...] Read More
MFA Boston Receives Landmark Gifts
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced that Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie have made a commitment to give their exceptional collections of 17th-century [...] 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