On June 21, 1672, Johan de Witt, the Grand Pensionary of the Dutch Republic, miraculously survived an attempt on his life when he was assaulted after leaving a government meeting. Although De Witt ...

Frans Post, "Landscape in Brazil with Sugar Plantation" (1660), oil on canvas, 14 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches (36.9 x 54 cm), held at the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (image via Wikimedia Commons) ...

I opened the PDF for Dutch Painting expecting to find yet another book about Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer— the familiar canonical Dutch figures. No doubt, so I anticipated, the ever-reliable art ...

Isaak Koedijk's "The Barber Surgeon," painted in 1649-1650, is one of numerous paintings on display at the San Diego Museum of Art as part of the "Dutch Painting: Special Loans from the Museum of Fine ...

The renowned painting belonged to the Nazi-looted Goudstikker collection and is believed to have remained for years in the home of descendants of a notorious SS collaborator.

The painting discovered in the attic of a barn in Connecticut nearly three decades ago was all but impossible to recognize. “It was filthy, black, dirty,” George Wachter, the chairman of Sotheby’s ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A painting that was once rejected as a work by Rembrandt van Rijn has now been acknowledged as a work by the Dutch master, thanks to two years of scrutiny in the city ...

An artwork plundered by the Nazis from the world-famous Goudstikker collection has surfaced in the family of a notorious SS collaborator in the Netherlands, Dutch art detective Arthur Brand tells AFP.