SHORTLY before the war, the eminent Dutch essayist Menno ter Braak attended an international writers’ congress in Paris. Many distinguished writers had spoken before him, and the audience was very ...

Beantown has become New New Amsterdam, with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston nearly doubling its Dutch and Flemish holdings, adding 114 donations, promised gifts, and loans from two collecting ...

The collecting bug first bit Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, a Marblehead, Mass., couple, in the 1970s, when they drew inspiration from their New Hampshire farmhouse and collected carriages and ...

Realism has fulfilled itself willy-nilly at various moments in Western visual culture, from ancient Roman portrait sculpture to the invention of photography. Seventeenth century painting in the Low ...

There are a million great places to eat in busy Amsterdam — but sometimes all you want is out of the throngs of tourists that seem to be everywhere. It's not so hard to sneak away. Just one short ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has consigned 17 works by Dutch and Flemish masters to be sold at two live auctions at Christie’s in New York in February. They are collectively estimated to sell for ...

Christie's is offering a group of important and highly collectable 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), during two live auctions, Old Masters I and Old ...

BOSTON — How do great art museums develop their collections? There’s an inclination to think it all took place in the distant past. In fact, of course, it’s an ongoing process. Occasionally museums ...

Hendrick Avercamp (Dutch, 1585–1634) 'Winter Landscape near a Village' (circa 1610–1615) Oil on panel. Promised gift of Rose‑Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art ...

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts never owned a Vermeer, but it has something even rarer, a painting Vermeer copied in two of his own paintings. Dirck van Baburen’s lascivious and satirical “The Procuress” ...