Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
There was a moment last year when the three principal museums of Amsterdam – the Stedelijk, the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum – were all more or less closed, the culmination of a pitiful, long-running soap opera. While rebuilding and restoration are inevitable, to have all three institutions in the hands of contractors was a scandalous miscalculation.
EIGHTEEN YEARS have intervened between Martin Royalton-Kisch’s 1992 exhibition catalogue Drawings by Rembrandt and his Circle in the British Museum and the British Museum’s complete catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his circle by the same author, here under review. The 1992 catalogue included all drawings then thought to be by Rembrandt plus a selection of newly attributed sheets from his school. It replaced the earlier British Museum publication on the subject by Arthur M. Hind (1915) and was a ‘work-in-progress’ on the way to a complete catalogue raisonné, reflecting the modern approach to the study of Rembrandt’s work. It followed the catalogues of the major collections of Rembrandt drawings in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Paris, all published in the 1980s.
Frans Hals’s Family portrait, recently acquired by the Toledo Museum of Art, is identified as the Van Campen family.
A painting of the Apostle Paul by Jan Lievens in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
A discussion of the Brussels tapestry series The legend of the miraculous Host by the Van der Borcht workshop.
Further information on the Rembrandt etchings stolen by Robert Dighton from the British Museum in the early nineteenth century.
Newly acquired paintings of interiors by Vilhelm Hammershøi in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
