A recording of the study day, organized by the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (Oxford) and the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD, The Hague), is available on YouTube.
Program
16 October 2020 (timezone GMT +1)
10:00 – Welcome
10:05–10:50: Session 1: The Young Rembrandt exhibition
10:05 – An Van Camp (Christopher Brown Curator of Northern European Art, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford), A Curator’s View of the Young Rembrandt Exhibition
10:30 – Peter Klein (Professor Emeritus in Wood Biology, University of Hamburg) and Jevon Thistlewood (Paintings Conservator, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford): A rediscovered painting from Rembrandt’s Workshop at the Ashmolean Museum
10:50 – Break
11:00–12:30 Session 2: Recent Material-Technical Research on Rembrandt’s Early Drawings and Prints
Moderator: Jane Turner (Head of the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
11:00 – Michiel Franken (Curator of Technical Documentation Rembrandt and Rembrandt School, Netherlands Institute for Art History RKD, The Hague): Rembrandt, his Teachers and the Education of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Artists
11:20 – Rick Johnson (Geoffrey S. M. Hedrick Senior Professor of Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York): Identifying New Watermarks in Impressions of Rembrandt’s Early Etchings: The WIRE Project at Cornell UniversityRick Johnson (Geoffrey S. M. Hedrick Senior Professor of Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York): Identifying New Watermarks in Impressions of Rembrandt’s Early Etchings: The WIRE Project at Cornell University
11:40 – Erik Hinterding (Curator of Prints, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam): The Young Rembrandt as an Experimental Printmaker
12:00 – Questions and Discussion
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 16:00 Session 3: Recent Art-Historical and Provenance Research on Rembrandt’s Early Drawings and Prints
Moderator: Jacquelyn Coutré (Eleanor Wood Prince Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1750, Art Institute of Chicago)
13:30 – Ilona van Tuinen (Curator of Drawings, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam): The Emergence of Rembrandt as a Draughtsman
13:50 – Olenka Horbatsch (independent art historian, London): Rembrandt’s Use of Unfinished Proof Impressions in his Printmaking
14:10 – Stephanie Dickey (Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada): Everyday Life in Rembrandt’s Early Works
14.30 – Break
14:40 – Tico Seifert (Senior Curator of Northern European Art, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh): The King, the curious, and the collectors: Rembrandt’s works in Britain before 1700
15:00 – Robert Fucci (Lecturer, University of Amsterdam): Understanding the Collecting and Patronage of Rembrandt’s Prints in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
15:40 – Questions and Discussion
16:00 – End of the Conference