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Associate Member of CODART since 2021
Member of CODART from 1998 to 2021
Peter van den Brink retired in September 2021.
Areas of specialization
- Early Netherlandish painting, drawing and stained glass
- 17th-century Dutch painting and drawings, in particular portraits and history painting
- Provenance research, in particular Nazi-era provenance
- History of collecting during the 19th century
- Technical art history, in particular Infrared reflectography (IRR)
Exhibitions curated since 1999
CODART publications
Brenda Eijkenaar, “In close proximity to TEFAF: Peter van den Brink Interviewed”, CODARTfeatures, March 2012.
Selected publications
“In Pursuit of the Individual Hand. Jan de Beer as a Draughtsman”
Essay in Dan Ewing, Peter van den Brink, Robert Wenley, ‘Truly Bright and Memorable’. Jan de Beer’s Renaissance Altarpieces, Exhibition catalogue The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham 2019, pp. 26-43.
“The miraculous Odyssey of Balthasar van der Ast’s Flower Still Life”
Essay in in Carla van de Puttelaar, Charles Dumas, Rudi Ekkart (eds.), Connoisseurship. Essays in Honour of Fred Meijer, Leiden 2020, pp. 49-54.
“In großem Stil. Albrecht Dürers Porträtzeichnungen der niederländischen Reise”
Essay in Peter van den Brink (ed.), Dürer war hier. Eine Reise wird Legende, Exh. Catalogue Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, Petersberg 2021, pp. 299-333.
“The Stigmatization of Saint Francis”
Essay in by Joos van Cleve: A New Discovery”, in Anna Koopstra, Joshua Waterman, Christine Seidel (eds.), Tributes to Maryan W. Ainsworth. Collaborative Spirit: Essays on Northern European Art, 1350–1650, London/Turnhout 2022, pp. 278-295.
“Joos van Cleve and Albrecht Dürer: a hypothetical relationship”
Article in Journal of the National Museum in Warsaw, new series 11 (47), 2022 [2023], pp. 121-220.
“Oh … the joys of country life … – A footnote on a lost Family portrait from the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen”
Essay in David DeWitt, Lilian Ruhe & Rudie van Leeuwen (eds.), Not always Rembrandt: Studies on Baroque painting and drawing. Liber Amicorum Volker Manuth, Brepols Turnhout 2023, pp. 66-77.
“On Art and Connoisseurship. Max Friedländer, the Master of the 1540s and his female portrait in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum”
Essay in Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch 84 (2023), pp. 39-68.
“Metamorphosis. A Portrait of a man holding glovesby the Master of the 1540s “
Article in Bulletin de l’Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique / Bulletin van het Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium [online], 39 (2024).
Download a complete list of publications and exhibitions by Peter van den Brink (PDF file, 2025)