CONF: Dutch Bargains and Belgian Sales: Making a Market for Art from the Low Countries in the Americas, c. 1840-1920

Dutch Bargains and Belgian Sales: Making a Market for Art from the Low Countries in the Americas, c. 1840-1920 

A two-day online symposium 

20 and 21 June 2024, 15:00-18:00 (CEST / Brussels time) 

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) 

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 

PRACTICAL Participation is free. To register: please email Evelien de Visser (devisser@rkd.nl) before 16 June 2024, with name and affiliation. You will receive the full program with abstracts and bios as well as a Teams-link on 19 June 2024 at the latest.