Information

Member of CODART since 2001

Exhibitions curated since 1999

CODART publications

Selected publications

Books and Exhibition Catalogues:

Abraham van Dijck 1635-1680: Life and Work of a Late Rembrandt Pupil, Zwolle, W Books, 2020

The Bader Collection: European Paintings, collection catalogue, Kingston, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2014

The Bader Collection I: Dutch and Flemish Paintings, collection catalogue, Kingston, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2008

Jan van Noordt: Painter of History and Portraits in Amsterdam, Kingston and Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007

With Laurie Winters and Mary Weaver Chapin, Rembrandt and his Time: Selected Paintings, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, 2005

Gift of Genius: A Rembrandt for Kingston, Kingston, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2003

Hendrick J. Horn, with the assistance of David A. de Witt: The Golden Age Revisited; Arnold Houbraken and The Great Theatre, 2 vols., Doornspijk, Davaco, The Netherlands, 2001

Articles:

“The Centurion Cornelius and the oeuvre of Heyman Dullaert,” Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis 2020, pp. 79-92  DOI:10.48296/KVHR2020.04

“Jacobus Leveck and Rembrandt’s Studio: An Old Woman Plucking Fowl,” in: Connoisseurship. Essays in Honour of Fred G. Meijer. ed. Charles Dumas et al., Leiden, Primavera Pers, 2020, pp. 359-364

“A Genre Drawing by Philips Koninck,” in: Rethinking Renaissance Drawings. Essays in Honour of David McTavish, Una D’Elia, ed., Kingston and Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016, pp. 278-285

“Rembrandt and the Climate of Religious Conflict in the 1620s,” Rembrandt – Wissenschaft auf der Suche, Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, Beiheft (Supplement) 2009, pp. 17-24

“Abraham van den Tempel (1622/3 – 1672) as a Draughtsman,” Oud Holland 119, no. 4, 2006, pp. 164-196

“‘…a coarse rugged way of Painting…’ and other observations relating to Rembrandt’s Head of an Old Man in a Cap in Kingston,” in: Rembrandt 2006: Essays, ed. Michiel Roscam Abbing, vol. 1, Leiden, Foleor Publishers, 2006, pp. 77-87

“The Scholar by Candlelight and Rembrandt’s Early Transition,” in: Collected Opinions: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Honour of Alfred Bader, eds. Volker Manuth and Axel Rüger, London, Paul Holberton, 2004, pp. 262-277

“Aert de Gelder, Jan Steen, and Houbraken’s `Perfect Picture’,” in: Rembrandt and Dutch History Painting in the 17th Century, proceedings of a symposium, ed. Akira Kofuku, Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, 2004, pp. 85-94

With Robert Schillemans, “Theodorus Ferreris,” entry in: Saur Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. 39, pp. 86-87

“Donation and Transformation. The Bader Collection at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre,” MUSE, July – August 2002, pp. 35-41

“A Scene from Cervantes in the Stadholder’s Collection,” Oud Holland 113, no. 4, 1999, pp. 181-186

“The 1859 Competition for Canada’s Parliament Buildings, `The Builder,’ and Periodical Publicity,” Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada 21, no. 4, December 1996, pp. 107-111

Reviews:

Review of Reinier Baarsen, Robert-Jan te Rijdt and Frits Scholten, Netherlandish art in the Rijksmuseum 1700-1800, Zwolle (Waanders Uitgevers) 2006, in: sehepunkte 8 (2008), No. 11 [15.11.2008], Full text

Review of: Görel Cavalli-Björkmann, with contributions by Carina Fryklund, Karin Sidén, and others, Dutch and Flemish Paintings II: Dutch Paintings c.1600-c.1800, Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 2005, in: HNA Newsletter 25, 1, 2008, pp. 24-25

Review of: Mirjam Neumeister, in collaboration with Christiane Haeseler, Holländische Gemälde im Städel 1550-1800. Vol. 1: Künstler geboren bis 1615, Petersburg/Frankfurt: Michael Imhoff Verlag, 2005, in: HNA Newsletter 24, 1, 2007, pp. 24-25

Review of: Dennis Weller, Jan Miense Molenaer, Painter of the Dutch Golden Age, exhibition catalogue Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, 2003, in: MUSE 21/6, November-December 2003, p. 47

Review of: Art History and its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline, ed. Elizabeth Mansfield, New York, Routledge, in: MUSE, March-April 2003, p. 47

Contributions to Exhibition Catalogues:

4 entries for paintings in: Jan Lievens: a Dutch Master Rediscovered, Washington, National Gallery of Art; Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum; Amsterdam, Rembrandt House Museum, 2008-2009, pp. 88-89, 122-123, 128-129, 132-133

2 entries for paintings in: Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608/9 – 1651): Rembrandts tegenpool, Amsterdam, Rembrandt House Museum; Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, 2008-2009, pp. 112-113, 130-131

5 entries for paintings in: Rembrandt: Genie auf der Suche, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen Berlin, 2006, pp. 252-253, 260-261, 344-345, 380-381, 402-403

2 entries for paintings in: Rembrandt’s Mother: Myth or Reality?, Leiden, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, 2005-2006, pp. 92-93, 126-127

“The Scholarly Afterlife of the Saint in Dutch Art,” in: Wisdom, Knowledge and Magic; The Image of the Scholar in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, exhibition catalogue, Kingston Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 25 October 1996-13 April 1997, pp. 11-12; also 4 entries for paintings: pp. 42-43, 56, 62-65