Beantown has become New New Amsterdam, with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston nearly doubling its Dutch and Flemish holdings, adding 114 donations, promised gifts, and loans from two collecting ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has consigned 17 works by Dutch and Flemish masters to be sold at two live auctions at Christie’s in New York in February. They are collectively estimated to sell for ...

When the Museum of Fine Arts has sold works of art in its collection recently it’s often been with an eye toward acquiring a specific artwork: a rare canvas by Surrealist Remedios Varo, or a large ...

SHORTLY before the war, the eminent Dutch essayist Menno ter Braak attended an international writers’ congress in Paris. Many distinguished writers had spoken before him, and the audience was very ...

Hendrick Avercamp (Dutch, 1585–1634) 'Winter Landscape near a Village' (circa 1610–1615) Oil on panel. Promised gift of Rose‑Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art ...

Christie's is offering a group of important and highly collectable 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), during two live auctions, Old Masters I and Old ...

Hendrick Avercamp's "Winter Landscape near a Village," painted around 1610-1615. (Courtesy Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection/Museum of Fine Arts) A still life of a dog at rest, a Dutch ...

Realism has fulfilled itself willy-nilly at various moments in Western visual culture, from ancient Roman portrait sculpture to the invention of photography. Seventeenth century painting in the Low ...

The collecting bug first bit Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, a Marblehead, Mass., couple, in the 1970s, when they drew inspiration from their New Hampshire farmhouse and collected carriages and ...

THE collection of pictures forming the germ of what it is so agreeable to have the Revue des Deux Mondes talking of currently as the Musée de New York, has recently been lodged in a handsome and ...

Explore the story behind the cracks in paintings, known as craquelure, and how they can help distinguish between Flemish, ...

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