Week five of the shutdown. The initial dread and diversion has faded. The existential doubt rises up and we wonder about our basic survival—much as the first settlers of New Amsterdam did long ago ...

I opened the PDF for Dutch Painting expecting to find yet another book about Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer— the familiar canonical Dutch figures. No doubt, so I anticipated, the ever-reliable art ...

Some historical figures achieve fame and fortune in life. Others owe their success thanks to their untimely deaths. Carel Fabritius, Rembrandt's most promising pupil, falls somewhere in between the ...

Jacqueline de Jong, c. 1977 (image courtesy Ortuzar Projects, New York) Dutch painter Jacqueline de Jong, celebrated for her contributions to painterly figuration and for her role in Europe's ...

Under a gray sky, a heavily armed Dutch cargo ship powers through the choppy waters of the North Sea, in Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom’s painting “A Fleet at Sea.” Wind fills the ship’s sails. Sailors work ...

The painting discovered in the attic of a barn in Connecticut nearly three decades ago was all but impossible to recognize. “It was filthy, black, dirty,” George Wachter, the chairman of Sotheby’s ...

Pieter de Hooch, Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room, 1658, detail with fingerprint Courtesy Museum Prinsenhof Delft A sweeping retrospective at the Museum Prinsenhof Delft in the Netherlands has united 29 ...

Early Netherlandish painters of the 1400s pioneered portraits as highly detailed, distinctive records of an individual. Two centuries later, artists of the Dutch Golden Age made these faces come alive ...

The new retrospective of the Dutch painter Frans Hals at the National Gallery in London—the first major exhibition of his work since 1989—is a slightly nervous event for the most talented one-trick ...

“The Swearing of the Oath of Ratification of the Treaty of Münster” by Gerard ter Borch. (Liveright/On loan from the National Gallery, London. Presented by Sir Richard Wallace, 1871, Rijksmuseum) ...