Tradition has it that the young American republic had a natural affinity with the 17th-century Dutch oligarchy--they shared concepts of democracy, religious freedom, the rise of the middle class, and a protestant work ethic. Bostonians from the 18th century to the present have turned this affinity into a passion for collecting Dutch painting. Landscapes that capture the subtleties of southern light, cityscapes and church interiors, seascapes, portraits, genre scenes, and still lifes are among the humble, precious, everyday subjects that have appealed to them. This book traces the history of Boston's remarkable collection of Dutch painting, including little-known works by Rembrandt, Balthasar van der Ast, Jan van der Heyden, and Jacob van Ruisdael, bringing together works from private collections usually seen only in their owner's homes.

Poetry of Everyday Life, The: Dutch Painting in Boston

Arts & Photography

Baer, Ronni

Hals, Franz

Ruisdael, Jacob van

van der Ast, Balthasar

van der Heyden, Jan

Rembrandt, Re

History & Criticism

MFA Publications

Still-life Masterpieces

Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston

North Carolina Museum Of Art

North Carolina Museum of Art

Gerrit Dou, an early pupil of Rembrandt, was one of the most highly esteemed Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, celebrated for the extraordinarily sensitive images he created with his fine and delicate technique. This beautiful book assembles and discusses thirty-five of his finest paintings. Founder of the Leiden school of fijnschilders, or "fine painters", Dou had an international clientele and was lauded by the theorist Philips Angel in his 1642 treatise Lof der Schilderkonst as an artist worthy of the honour accorded the ancients. The book presents a wide range of subjects painted by Dou over the course of his career. These include portraiture, still life, and religious images as well as scenes of daily life - mothers with their children, painters in their studios, scholars, shopkeepers, schoolmasters, musicians, and astronomers. Many of these works incorporate symbolic elements that Dou used to reflect the complexity of life's moral and ethical dilemmas. This book is the c

Gerrit Dou, 1613-1675: Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt

Wheelock, Arthur K.

Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands)

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Boersma, Annetje

Dou, Gerard

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Natl Gallery of Art

This volume brings together superb 17th-century paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and decorative arts from the Southern Netherlands, the area now known as Belgium. Representing one of the greatest periods in the history of European art, the book includes the work of Rubens, van Dyck, and Jordaens, along with contemporary examples of furniture, metalwork, glass, and other objects of the same extraordinary quality.
 An introductory essay examines Flemish artistic production in context, both by describing the impact of the Eighty Years' War and by focusing on the prominent figures in the political and artistic life of the time.

So Many Brilliant Talents: Art & Craft in the Age of Rubens

Michael C. Carlos Museum

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