MFA Boston will deaccession and sell 17 works by Dutch and Flemish masters at Christie’s in New York in February.

Harald Altmaier’s photographs of floral tableaux, as colossal in effort as in scale, recall 17th-century Dutch still lifes, ...

Georgina Eliot, Sotheby’s Associate Specialist of Old Master Paintings, added, “What is particularly exciting about this collection is that it helps us widen our understanding of the Dutch Golden Age.

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A few farseeing and discriminating collectors, such as Staats Forbes of London, furnished about the only market for these modern Dutch painters for many years. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

The deaccessioned works, to be offered at Christie's in New York, include 17 pieces by Dutch and Flemish artists from the ...

Johannes Vermeer is one of the great Dutch masters, though only about 35 paintings by him are known. Born in Delft in 1632, he may have been a pupil of local history painter Leonaert Bramer. Vermeer ...

the Dutch Masters, everyone was wonderfully enthusiastic. Art and history have long been two big inspirations for my work. I love the depth and richness of colours you find in the oil paintings of ...

Realistic Paintings: Tjalf Sparnaay was born in Haarlem, Netherlands in the year 1954. He is a combination of artist, photographer, illustrator and painter. Though Tjalf Sparnaay's education ...

Birds, for instance, stood for sexual intercourse and ‘vogelen (Dutch for ‘to bird’) was another word for lovemaking. Metsu's The Hunter’s Present is thus an erotically charged/naughty painting. The ...

Other paintings and etchings of the Mediterranean ... writes author Benjamin Moser in The Upside-Down World: Meetings With the Dutch Masters. He points out that Europe’s “first notably cold ...