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Member of CODART since 2001
Exhibitions curated since 1999
CODART publications
Sabine Pénot, Leonore van Sloten and David de Witt, “Samuel van Hoogstraten: A Collaborative Project”, CODARTfeatures, June 2022.
Dr. David de Witt, “The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Canada”, CODARTfeatures, October 2013.
Selected publications
Books and Exhibition Catalogues:
With Leonore van Sloten: Samuel van Hoogstraten: The Illusionist. Zwolle, WBooks; Amsterdam: Rembrandt House Museum, 2025
With Rudie van Leeuwen and Lilian Ruhe, eds., Not Always Rembrandt: 37 Essays on Baroque Art, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023
Abraham van Dijck 1635-1680: Life and Work of a Late Rembrandt Pupil, Zwolle, W Books, 2020
Glenn Brown – Rembrandt: After Life, Zwolle, W Books; Amsterdam, The Rembrandt House Museum, 2017
With Judith Noorman, Rembrandt’s Naked Truth. Drawing Nude Models in the Golden Age, Zwolle, W Books; Amsterdam, The Rembrandt House Museum, 2016
With Jaap van der Veen, Een rijke traditie. Twee eeuwen Nederlandse prentkunst uit privébezit, Varik, Uitgeverij de Weideblik; Amsterdam, Museum Het Rembranthuis, 2016
With Leonore van Sloten and Jaap van der Veen, Rembrandt’s Late Pupils. Studying Under a Genius. Houten, Terra Lannoo; Amsterdam, The Rembrandt House Museum, 2015
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:
“Jacques des Rousseaux’s Choices: Vanitas, Harmony, Jan Lievens, Rembrandt,” forthcoming in: MNAA – Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga Boletim 1 (2026)
with Marina Perkovic, “Landscape with Judah and Thamar, by Pieter de With,” forthcoming in: Portal : The Yearbook of the Croatian Conservation Institute, 17, 2026
“Visiting Rembrandt, c. 1656: Abraham van Dijck, Nicolaes Maes, and Samuel van Hoogstraten,” Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis 2024/25, pp. 45-51
“Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Drawings: History, Life, Universality,” in: Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678): Catalogue Raisonné. in the series: RKD Studies, The Hague, Netherlands Office for Art History, 2025.
with Leonore van Sloten, “Samuel van Hoogstraten: Painting the Visible World,” in: Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678): Catalogue Raisonné. in the series: RKD Studies, The Hague, Netherlands Office for Art History, 2025.
“An Intriguing Dutch Seventeenth-century Female Nude Study, after Life, from the collection of Julius Held,” in: Fred G. Meijer, Carla van de Puttelaar, and Lisanne Wepler, eds., Art Stories from the Netherlands and Italy, 1550-1800, Amsterdam, Galatea Publishers, 2023, pp. 395-401
“Philips Koninck, Rembrandt’s Friend: Two New Paintings,” in David de Witt, Rudie van Leeuwen and Lilian Ruhe, eds., Not Always Rembrandt: 37 Essays on Baroque Art, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023, pp. 46-55
“Lievens in Antwerp: a New Portrait Discovery,” Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis 2022, pp. 44-49
“A Drawn Studio Scene by Cornelis Bisschop, instead of Jan Lievens,” Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis 2021, pp. 42-51
“The Centurion Cornelius and the oeuvre of Heyman Dullaert,” Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis 2020, pp. 79-92
“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: Stephanie Dickey, HNA Newsletter and Review of Books 32, November 2015, pp. 44-46
Review: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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:
“From Rembrandt’s Nae ‘t leven to Van Hoogtstraten’s Zichtbaere Werelt,” in: Samuel van Hoogstraten: The Illusionist. Zwolle, WBooks; Amsterdam: Rembrandt House Museum, 2025, pp. 66-81; and also: “Van Hoogstraten’s Famous Treatise,” (pp. 30-31); “Challenged by Rembrandt” (with Leonore van Sloten, pp. 124-127); “Van Hoogstraten as a Teacher” (pp. 130-131)
“From Rembrandt’s nae ’t leven to Van Hoogstraten’s zichtbaere wereld,” in: Sabine Pénot, ed., Rembrandt-Hoogstraten: Colour and Illusion. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2024-2025, pp. 122-151.
“The Black Presence in the Art of Rembrandt and his Circle,” in: Black in Rembrandt’s Time. ed. Elmer Kolfin and Epco Runia. Zwolle: WBooks; Amsterdam, The Rembrandt House Museum, 2020, pp. 88-119
with Franziska Gottwald, “Rembrandt & Light,” in: Rembrandt’s Light. London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2019, pp. 17-38
“Drawing Together Outdoors,” in: Rembrandt’s Social Network: Family, Friends and Acquaintances. Zwolle, WBooks; Amsterdam, The Rembrandt House Museum, 2019, pp. 88-99 (and various biographies)
“A Story that Needs to be Shown,” “Vive la Révolution! ~ Against the Académie,” and “Three Trees, Thrice,” in: Rembrandt in Paris. Amsterdam, The Rembrandt House Museum, pp. 4-8, 10-13, 27-28
“Govert Flinck Learns to Paint Like Rembrandt,” in: Ferdinand Bol & Govert Flinck: Rembrandt’s Master Pupils. Amsterdam, The Rembrandt House Museum and Amsterdam Museum, 2017, pp. 18-39.
With Leonore van Sloten, “Ferdinand Bol, Rembrandt’s Disciple,” in: Ferdinand Bol & Govert Flinck: Rembrandt’s Master Pupils. Amsterdam, The Rembrandt House Museum and Amsterdam Museum, 2017, pp. 40-53.
Introduction to the catalogue, in: Glenn Brown – Rembrandt: After Life. Zwolle: WBooks; Amsterdam: The Rembrandt House Museum, 2017
“Rembrandt’s Caution Concerning the Beautiful Female Nude,” in: Rembrandt’s Naked Truth. Drawing Nude Models in the Golden Age. Zwolle, WBooks; Amsterdam, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, 2016, pp. 45-61, and various catalogue sections
22 entries in: Een rijke traditie. Twee eeuwen Nederlandse prentkunst uit privébezit, Varik, Uitgeverij de Weideblik; Amsterdam, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, 2015
“Studying Under a Genius,” in: Rembrandt’s Late Pupils. Studying Under a Genius. Amsterdam, The Rembrandt House Museum, 2015, pp. 75-116
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