This fellowship offers grants in the field of art history, to support a project devoted to the study and connoisseurship of Dutch and Flemish art from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. The fellowship is open to curators as well as graduate students in the United States. Curators requiring first hand study of objects or collections in the Netherlands or Belgium who do not have funding from their institutions are invited to apply. Graduate students should be researching dissertations that necessitate the examination of paintings, drawings or objects in the original. Graduate student candidates must be working towards a Ph.D. at an American University. The stipend is $15,000. To learn more about our organization, please visit http://americanfriendsofthemauritshuis.org.

Applicants are invited to submit a proposal with a detailed description of the project (three pages maximum) and two letters of recommendation before July 1, 2013 to info@americanfriendsofthemauritshuis.org