Online symposium: Dutch Bargains and Belgian Sales
Date: 20 and 21 June 2024
Time: 15:00 – 18:00
Registration: email Evelien de Visser (devisser@rkd.nl) before 16 June, with name and affiliation.
Organised by Jan Dirk Baetens (Radboud University Nijmegen), Evelien de Visser (RKD –
Netherlands Institute for Art History) and Ulrike Müller (University of Antwerp / Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
Dutch Bargains and Belgian Sales: Making a Market for Art from the Low Countries in the Americas, c. 1840-1920
PROGRAM
Thursday 20 June 2024
15.00-15.05 Chris Stolwijk (RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History)
Welcome
15.05-15.10 Evelien De Visser (RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History)
Introduction
15.10-15.30 Suzanne Veldink (Museum Singer Laren and Stadsarchief Amsterdam)
Mesdag in America
15.30-15.50 Tom Packet (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Selling Art in St. Louis: Belgian Artistic Display at the Louisiana Purchase International
Exposition, 1904
15.50-16.10 Ulrike Müller (University of Antwerp / Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
Promoting Modern Belgian Art in America: The Travelling Exhibition of Constantin
Meunier’s Works, 1913-1914
16.10-16.30 Questions and discussion
16.30-16.45 Break
16.45-17.05 Ingrid Goddeeris (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
How Contemporary ‘Flemish’ Art reached America through the Transatlantic Tentacles
of the Art Dealer Ernest Gambart (1814-1902)
17.05-17.25 Petra Chu (Seton Hall University)
Ichabod T. Willliams: Lumber Merchant and Art Collector. A Case study of Collecting
Contemporary Dutch and Belgian Paintings in Nineteenth-Century New York
17.25-17.45 Questions and discussion
Friday 21 June 2024
15.00-15.10 Ulrike Müller (University of Antwerp / Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
Welcome and introduction
15.10-15.30 Anne Helmreich (Smithsonian, Archives of American Art)
Circulatory Networks of Transatlantic Exchange
15.30-15.50 Jan Dirk Baetens (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Big Business and Perilous Patronage: Albert D’Huyvetter Fine Arts between Antwerp
and New York, c. 1850-1900
15.50-16.10 Questions and discussion
16.10-16.25 Break
16.25-16.45 Evelien de Visser (RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History)
Modern Dutch art at the Macbeth Gallery in New York (1892-1896)
16.45-17.05 Agnès Penot (Gallery 19C)
The Inner Workings of a Global Art Empire: The Goupil-Van Gogh Partnership and the
Rise of The Hague School in America
17.05-17.25 Questions and discussion
17.25-17.40 Jan Dirk Baetens (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Closing remarks