Volume 75 of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ) is titled ‘The Dutch Americas: Art Histories of the Atlantic World’.
The Dutch West India Company – active in Brazil, the Caribbean, North America, and West Africa – has received little art historical attention compared to the considerable scholarship about the Dutch East India Company. Terming the network of outposts connected by their activities the “Dutch Americas”, this issue of the NKJ seeks to account for the material histories undergirded by the activities managed by the Dutch in the Atlantic world. The volume offers new narratives for familiar artists like Frans Post and Albert Eckhout; interrogates the relationship of understudied geographies and corresponding trade goods to art produced in this period; and integrates perspectives of Indigenous and African makers and viewers.
Volume editors: Aaron M. Hyman, Stephanie Porras, Natasha Seaman and Edward H. Wouk.
Contributors include: Carrie Anderson, Adam Eaker, Aaron M. Hyman, Carolina Monteiro, Stephanie Porras, Hannah Prescott, Margaux Shraiman, Margot Steurbaut, Jeroen van den Hurk, Michiel van Groesen, Angela Vanhaelen, and Rebecca Zorach.
The entire volume is published open access on the Brill website.
Table of Contents
Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ)
Volume 75 (June 2025)
Aaron M. Hyman and Stephanie Porras
Towards an art history of the Dutch Americas
Margot Steurbaut
The glazing of Beverwijck’s First Dutch Reformed Church: Colonial power visualized
Jeroen van den Hurk
Dutch Reformed churches in Colonial North America: To ‘promote godliness in every way’
Carolina Monteiro
All things created: Slavery, African knowledge, and material culture in Dutch Brazil (1630-1654)
Adam Eaker
A private Atlantic: The Ter Borch family albums as colonial archive
Carrie Anderson
Amsterdam, Accra, America: Glass beads, pearls, and ersatz gems in the Dutch Atlantic
Hannah Prescott
A crown made of brass: Dutch piracy and commodifying West African identity in the seventeenth-century transatlantic slave trade
Margaux Shraiman
Commercialising Eden: Frans Post’s drawings of the Fortunate Isles
Angela Vanhaelen
Displacement: Picturing captive women in Brazil
Michiel van Groesen
Allegory and allegiance: The Dutch Americas in the imagination of Bonaventura and Gillis Peeters
Rebecca Zorach
Making and unmaking worlds with tëmakwe