by Erika Gaffney | Oct 14, 2025 | News/Blog
History’s Dutch and Flemish women artists are having a moment! Currently there are at least three art exhibitions focused on early modern female makers of the Low Countries. Three of these shows incorporate an international traveling component. In addition,...
by artherstory | Apr 12, 2025 | News/Blog
Guest post by Sylvia Barbara Soberton, author, independent researcher and art historian The Horenbouts, a family of Flemish painters, came to England in the 1520s to work at the court of Henry VIII. By that time Gerard was already established as a skilled artist. He...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 31, 2024 | News/Blog
Already 2025 has much to offer in terms of art museum shows about women artists from the distant past through the present. Here, though, we focus (almost) exclusively on art exhibitions about women artists from the Renaissance to about the mid-20th century. Some are...
by wpengine | Mar 11, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Ariane van Suchtelen, Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands In 2022 the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague celebrates its 200th anniversary with In Full Bloom, a festive exhibition about Dutch and Flemish flower still lifes of the seventeenth...
by wpengine | May 12, 2020 | News/Blog
A guest post by art historian Louisa Woodville The Flemish-born miniaturist Levina Teerlinc (1510–1576) was a highly-paid member of the Tudor court. Monarchs Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary Tudor, and Elizabeth I commissioned works, including miniatures, from her. She was...
