Previous Posts: September 2025

Upcoming: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750

September 4 2025

Picture: nmwa.org

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC will be opening their latest exhibition Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750 later this month.

According to the museum's website:

Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750 showcases a broad range of work by more than forty Dutch and Flemish women artists, including Gesina ter Borch, Maria Faydherbe, Anna Maria de Koker, Judith Leyster, Magdalena van de Passe, Clara Peeters, Rachel Ruysch, Maria Tassaert, Jeanne Vergouwen, Michaelina Wautier, and more. Presenting an array of paintings, lace, prints, paper cuttings, embroidery, and sculpture, this exhibition draws on recent scholarship to demonstrate that a full view of women’s contributions to the artistic economy is essential to understanding Dutch and Flemish visual culture of the period.

The show will run from 26th September 2025 until 11th January 2025 and will then reopen at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium, in March.

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Waddesdon Manor Reynolds Pair Settles £24.5m in Tax

September 4 2025

Picture: Waddesdon Manor / The Art Newspaper

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

News from The National Trust that two paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds from Waddesdon Manor have been acquired by the organisation for £24.5m as part of the Acceptance in Lieu Scheme. Both paintings came from estate of the late Jacob, 4th Baron Rothschild, and had been displayed in the upstairs rooms of Waddesdon.

According to the article linked above:

Acceptance of the first painting, “David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy” settled £7m of tax and the “Portrait of Joanna Leigh, Mrs Richard Bennett Lloyd” acceptance settled £17.5m. [...]

Pippa Shirley, director of Waddesdon, said: “ The fact that [the paintings] will remain in the house which has been their home for 30 years for everyone to enjoy is a truly generous gift to the nation.”