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Mead Art Museum opened in 1950 as a repository for Amherst College’s art collections and a space for exhibitions. The museum’s collection of Dutch and Flemish art includes over 40 paintings, approximately 140 prints and drawings, half a dozen sculptures, and more than 50 decorative art objects: furniture, tapestries, ceramics, metalwork, as well as stained glass panels permanently installed in the Rotherwas Room, an English-paneled room from the Jacobean era.  

Collection highlights include the only known painted portrait of Hieronymus Bosch (created by an unknown sixteenth-century Netherlandish artist), an oil sketch by Peter Paul Rubens, once owned by François Boucher, still lifes by Frans Snyders and Willem Kalf, religious paintings by Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael, Jan Boeckhorst, and Pieter Lastman, a genre scene by Adriaen van Ostade, and church interior paintings by Hendrik Cornelisz van Vliet and Bartholomeus van Bassen. Significant examples of printmaking feature works by Hendrik Goltzius, Anthony van Dyck, and a print from Geertruydt Roghman’s original suite, Household Tasks.  

Maria Timina, Curator of Russian and European Art (October 2024)