Book Reviews

At Home with Ter Borch: Artist Family in Zwolle

By Marjorie E. Wieseman (curator)

Zwolle, Museum de Fundatie, September 6, 2025 – February 1 2026.
Exh. cat. ed. by Beatrice von Bormann, Sanne van de Kraats, Gerdien Verschoor, and Marjorie E. Wieseman. Zwolle: Wbooks, 2025. 176 pp, fully illustrated in color. ISBN 9789462587359. Dutch edition: Thuis bij Ter Borch. ISBN 9789462587205.

Review published July 2026

Published in conjunction with the exhibition in Zwolle, this book is devoted to the art of the Ter Borch family, much of which consists of works on paper now housed in the Rijksmuseum since 1887. The [...] Read More

Carel de Moor 1655–1738: His Life and Work. A Catalogue Raisonné

By Pamela Fowler and Piet Bakker

Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2024. 352 pp, ca. 400 color illus. ISBN 978-90-5997-393-0 (hardback).

Review published July 2026

Over the past few decades, publications and exhibitions on Dutch art of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries have slowly but steadily transformed our understanding of this transitional [...] Read More

The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens. A Critical Catalogue, Vol. III (1621-1640)

By Anne-Marie Logan and Kristin Lohse Belkin

2 vols., Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2025. 555 pp, 194 col. illus. ISBN 978-2-503-59956-4.

Review published July 2026

At the end of last year, the long-awaited third and final volume of the The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens by Anne-Marie Logan and Kristin Lohse Belkin was published. After all the publications that [...] Read More

Govert Flinck 1615-1660

By Tom van der Molen

Zwolle, WBooks, 2025. 528 pages, 427 col. illus., 78 b&w illus. (in Dutch only). ISBN 9789462585904.

Review published June 2026

It was perhaps no coincidence that Govert Flinck first received a monographic study of his life and work well after his friend Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1926), and fellow Rembrandt pupil Philips Koninck [...] Read More

Willem Key and Adriaen Thomasz. Key: Fresh Perspectives on Their Oeuvres (Pictura Nova: Studies in 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing, XXVIII)

By Lien Vandenberghe, in collaboration with Gijs Key. Edited by Koenraad Jonckheere.

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2025. 256 pp, 102 color, 1 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-61926-2.

Review published June 2026

In 2007, Koenraad Jonckheere published a monograph on the relatively little-known, under-studied Antwerp painter, Adriaen Thomasz. Key: Adriaen Thomasz. Key (c. 1545 - c. 1589): Portrait of a [...] Read More

Early Netherlandish Drawings 1400-1600

By Olenka Horbatsch and Charlotte Wytema (curators)

London, The British Museum, April 16 – September 20, 2026.
Exh. cat. ed. by Olenka Horbatsch and Charlotte Wytema, London: The British Museum Press, 2026, 368 pp, 320 illus. ISBN 978-0-7141-3651-6.

Review published June 2026

Accompanying an exhibition of its spectacular holdings of Netherlandish drawings, the British Museum has issued its richly illustrated definitive catalogue of collection highlights, the first in [...] Read More

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