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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

BOSTON – With a pair of trendy “full immersion” experiences in Boston, painter Vincent van Gogh might be having a moment. However, the Museum of Fine Arts has something equally rapt on display: 100 ...

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 ...

The Museum of Fine Arts has received two collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art, a vast trove of 113 paintings that catapults its Dutch collection to among the country’s very finest and ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has become—seemingly overnight—one of the country’s preeminent destinations for Dutch art from the Golden Age. The museum announced yesterday that two Boston-area ...