CODART, Dutch and Flemish art in museums worldwide

Hannah Prescott Senior Program Manager, Center for Netherlandish Art, Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Information

Associate Member of CODART since 2026

Areas of specialization

  • 17th-century Dutch painting
  • 17th-century Dutch textiles (especially linen)
  • The Dutch Americas

Selected publications

2026

‘A Knowing Touch: Linen and the Female Hand in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Imagery’
Hannah Prescott
Essay in The Female Impact, Judith Noorman (ed.)
Leiden (Brill) forthcoming

2025

‘A crown made of brass: Dutch piracy and commodifying West African identity in the seventeenth-century trans-Atlantic slave trade’
Hannah Prescott
Essay in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, Vol. 75 (Dutch Americas: art histories of the Atlantic world), pp. 155-182
Leiden (Brill) 2025

‘Lijnwaad (linen)’
Hannah Prescott
Essay on The Dutch Textile Trade Project, Carrie Anderson and Marsely Kehoe (eds.)
dutchtextiletrade.org/textiles/lijnwaad-linen/

‘Streep’
Hannah Prescott
Essay on The Dutch Textile Trade Project, Carrie Anderson and Marsely Kehoe (eds.)
dutchtextiletrade.org/textiles/streep/