The National Gallery of Ireland holds the most comprehensive and eminent collection of Dutch and Flemish art in Ireland. It includes paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, and Johannes Vermeer. The latter was featured in the Summer 2024 exhibition Vermeer Visits, where the Gallery displayed The Frick Collection’s Mistress and Maid by Johannes Vermeer with the Gallery’s own Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid. This was an unprecedented opportunity to unite the works, as The Frick’s Vermeer – one of the highlights of its holdings – has rarely traveled outside of New York. This presentation will share insights from the Vermeer Visits exhibition, and discuss some of the most cherished paintings from the National Gallery of Ireland’s collection.

Dr Lizzie Marx is the Curator of Dutch and Flemish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. She received her doctorate from the University of Cambridge, and was the 2018–19 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. She has worked on exhibitions in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, including Fleeting – Scents in Colour (2021) at the Mauritshuis, The Hague, and Turning Heads: Rubens, Rembrandt, and Vermeer (2024) and Vermeer Visits (2024) at the National Gallery of Ireland.

Vermeer Visits and Treasures from the National Gallery of Ireland
The lecture will be given by Dr Lizzie Marx, Curator of Dutch and Flemish Art, National Gallery of Ireland

Date: Monday, 16 June 2025
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm
Address: 32 E 67th Street, New York, NY 10065

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