Upcoming Release: Jeremiah Meyer Catalogue Raisonné
October 14 2025
Picture: ad picturam
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Exciting news that the publishers ad picturam will be release Peter Knaus's new monograph and Catalogue Raisonné on the miniature painter Jeremiah Meyer in 2026.
According to their blurb:
This book is the first comprehensive account of Jeremiah Meyer’s life and work. Its content is based almost exclusively on historical and contemporary sources. Numerous visits to archives in England and Germany provided access to these often difficult-to-obtain documents and yielded authentic and unbiased information about Jeremiah Meyer’s life and work.
The detailed catalogue raisonné, which currently lists 821 works, is intended to serve as a basis for research into Meyer’s artworks and to provide greater clarity in the attribution of his works. In addition, it will be a useful aid for auctioneers and art dealers in assessing and evaluating miniatures.
As is the custom with such worthy projects, the publication wins Knaus a place within the much coveted 'Heroes of Art History' section of this blog.
Moulins Triptych Restored
October 14 2025
Picture: Louvre
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Louvre has announced the completion of a restoration project on Jean Hey's Moulins Triptych. Begun in 2022, the campaign of conservation and in-depth study was undertaken by Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF). The artwork will be revealed to the public on 26th November 2026 in a special display within the museum.
Monet and Venice in Brooklyn
October 14 2025
Video: Brooklyn Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Brooklyn Museum have just opened a new exhibition on Monet and Venice.
According to the museum's website:
New York’s largest museum show dedicated to Monet in over 25 years, the exhibition features more than 100 artworks, books, and ephemera. Two masterpieces, the Brooklyn Museum’s own Palazzo Ducale and The Grand Canal, Venice from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, are presented alongside selections from throughout Monet’s career—including 19 of his Venetian paintings.
The show will run until 1st February 2026.
Upcoming Release: Vermeer - A Life Lost and Found
October 13 2025
Picture: Penguin
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Times ran an interesting article over the weekend promoting Andrew Graham-Dixon's new book entitled Vermeer - A Life Lost and Found. In particular, Graham-Dixon's publication focuses a great deal on Vermeer's connections to 'an underground peace movement' of Calvinist Remonstrants and his important patron Maria de Knuijt for whom he created virtually all of his work. The book provides new interpretations of several iconic Vermeer pictures, including the fact that The Girl with the Pearl Earing may be based on the likeness of Maria's daughter Magdalena, who was twelve at the time Vermeer's painting was produced.
The book will be available from 23rd October 2025.
Update - For those wanting more information, it appears (via. several social media accounts) that articles by Piet Bakker and an essay by Judith Noorman have also covered this particular angle before Graham-Dixon's book. Click on the links to read and find out more.
Diana Scultori Exhibition in Mantova
October 13 2025
Picture: Budapest, Szépművészeti Muzeum via. mincioedintorni.com
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Palazzo Ducale di Mantova have opened a new exhibition over the weekend dedicated to the female engraver Diana Scultori (1547 cica - 1612). Featuring 40 works, including drawings, medals and engravings, the show will investigate her prints (many of which are after the old masters) and her artistic talents and connections beyond this sphere.
The display will run until 11th January 2026.
Curate for The National Trust for Scotland
October 13 2025
Picture: The National Trust for Scotland
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The National Trust for Scotland are hiring a Curator.
According to the job description:
The Curator Edinburgh & East provides curatorial support for the National Trust for Scotland’s Edinburgh & East region. They ensure that the cultural heritage of the properties in the region is well researched, understood and interpreted for the public. They have particular curatorial responsibility for the object collections and interiors at the region’s properties, but will also work with landscapes, gardens and intangible cultural heritage (ICH), facilitating cross-disciplinary research and ensuing integrated interpretation across all aspects of properties.
The job comes with an annual salary between £40,707 - £44,847 and applications must be in by 26th October 2025.
Good luck if you're applying!
Masterpieces from the Pinacoteca Malaspina di Pavia at the Palazzo Pallavicini
October 10 2025
Picture: Palazzo Pallavicini
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Palazzo Pallavicini in Bologna is hosting fifty masterpieces from the Pinacoteca Malaspina di Pavia for a special exhibition entitled Visions and faces from the Renaissance to Neoclassicism [roughly translated]. Paintings include those from the likes of Giandomenico Tiepolo, Correggio, Bernardino Luini, Giampietrino, Moretto, Pompeo Batoni, Andrea Del Sarto and the show will run until 1st February 2026.
Guido Reni in Turin
October 10 2025
Picture: Galleria Sabauda
Posted by Adam Busiakeiwicz:
The Galleria Sabauda in Turin will be opening their latest exhibition tomorrow dedicated to Guido Reni. The show focuses on works from the Savoy collections alongside loans from institutions including the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse.
The exhibition will run until 18th January 2026.
Sotheby's New York Internships 2026
October 10 2025
Picture: Sotheby's
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Sotheby's New York are inviting applications for their Summer 2026 Internship Programme.
According to their website:
Sotheby’s Summer Internship Program provides practical training experience to students interested in pursuing a career in the fine art and auction world. Internships are available across various business areas and interns will work within a specific department based on their academic interests and professional goals. Over the course of the summer program, Sotheby’s interns will experience the inner workings of a world-renowned auction house, see great rarities and discover potential industry career opportunities. In addition, interns will gain exposure to the business through hands-on learning, mentorship, team projects and so much more.
The 10-week programme comes with a one-off payment of $2,000 and applications must be in by 1st January 2026.
Good luck if you're applying!
Recently Opened: Mary Linwood - Art, Stitch and Life
October 10 2025
Picture: Leicester Museum & Art Gallery
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
I'm a little slow to news that the Leicester Museum & Art Gallery opened a new show last month dedicated to the pioneering textile artist. Mary Linwood (1755-1845).
According to the museum's website:
Leicester’s Mary Linwood was a celebrity artist in the early 1800s but has since been largely forgotten.
She created detailed embroidered versions of famous British paintings using a technique known as needle painting. Linwood was not only a talented artist but also an innovator and entrepreneur. Alongside running a successful school for young ladies in Leicester, she exhibited her embroidered works in touring exhibitions and established the first gallery in London to be run by a woman.
In her lifetime, she was supported by the wealthy and powerful, and was widely respected and well known. Since her death, however, she has been overlooked and undervalued.
The exhibition will run until 22nd February 2026.
Recent Release: Street Style - Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio
October 10 2025
Picture: reaktionbooks.com
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The publishers Reaktion Books released a new title Street Style - Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio at the end of last month. The volume was penned by Elizabeth Currie.
According to the publisher's blurb:
In late sixteenth-century Rome, artists found inspiration in bustling streets and taverns, depicting soldiers, Romani fortune tellers, sex workers and servants among the city’s poorest inhabitants. Street Style explores these hidden lives, uncovering how the stories of ordinary people are preserved through their clothing and appearances in art. Written records highlight the harsh conditions faced by marginalized groups, while prints and paintings often promoted visual stereotypes. With fresh interpretations of notable works by Caravaggio and his followers, this book reveals the complex social meanings of dress and the ways art captured and shaped the real-life struggles of early modern Italy’s lower classes.
Laurent de la Hyre acquired by Städel Museum
October 10 2025
Picture: Städel Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Städel Museum in Frankfurt have announced their acquisition of Laurent de la Hyre's The Assumption of The Virgin. Completed between 1650 and 1655, the work relates to an altarpiece which has either disappeared or was never completed and takes great inspiration from Guido Reni who is well represented in the museum. The picture appears to have been sold at auction in France back in September 2017.
Velázquez's Philip IV Equestrian Portrait Conserved
October 10 2025
Video: El Debate
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Prado in Madrid have unveiled Velázquez's freshly conserved Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV. After the four-month conservation project, the museum now believe that the artist undertook all of the painting himself with minimal workshop assistance.
Not Marie Antoinette
October 10 2025
Picture: The Times
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Times ran an interesting story this week regarding research which shows that a Liotard pastel in Geneva, which was long thought to depict Marie Antoinette as a child, is actually the likeness of ill-fated Queen's sister Maria Carolina instead. Prof. Catriona Seth, of the University of Oxford, looked into the Liotard portraits in preparation for a book she is writing where she spotted a discrepancy in the brooches worn by the girls. Marie Anoinette is in fact the girl illustrated in the portrait on the right.
Apologies...
October 10 2025
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Apologies for the slow service this week, we had a problem in the boiler room of AHN which has just been resolved. I will get posting all the backlog of news later today!
National Gallery auctioning-off benches
October 8 2025
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Social media has been full today with news that The National Gallery in London are auctioning-off their rather comfortable leather gallery benches later this month. The old benches are a fire hazard and a potential home for pests, apparently. Images I've seen floating around of the plain wooden ones which are replacing the old appear incredibly uncomfortable and unwelcoming indeed.
Early View of Bilbao acquired by Museum
October 7 2025
Picture: El Pais
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from Spain that the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum have acquired the following view of the city. Dating to 1700, and completed by an unknown hand, the work had remained with the English descendants of the merchant John Seale was acquired by the museum from the dealers Delamano Old Masters.
Restored Hogarth Murals reopened to Public
October 7 2025
Picture: bdonline.co.uk
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Exciting news that William Hogarth's recently restored murals undertaken for St Bartholomew's Hospital in London have been reopened to the public. The whole project to restore the hospital's North Wing cost £9.5m and has taken 5 years to complete.
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Apologies for the slightly small image, do let me know there are any high-res images of the actual paintings themselves (rather than just room shots) available anywhere!
Highmore Masquerade Portrait acquired by MFA Houston
October 7 2025
Picture: MFA Houston
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has shared images on their social media account their 2025 acquisition of a Masquerade Portrait by Joseph Highmore. The signed picture, dating to the 1740s, was acquired from London dealer Philip Mould & Co and funded by Cecily E. Horton.
Past Matters at The Society of Antiquaries
October 7 2025
Picture: Society of Antiquaries
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House are running a series of fundraising talks this autumn entitled Past Matters. Funds raised from tickets will go on the society's new plans for the building and their activities within.
Here's a list of the upcoming talks:
Sale of early Engravings of the Society of Antiquaries at Abbot & Holder
Tuesday 21 October – December
Royal Patrons & Collectors in the 20th Century, from King Edward VII to Queen Elizabeth II - by Tim Knox FSA, Director of The Royal Collection
Tuesday 28 October, 6-7pm
Myth and Magic – A 16th-century charmstone & its links to the Society of Antiquaries - by Geoffrey Munn OBE FSA
Friday 31 October, 6-8pm
Drawn to Discovery at the Antiquaries - An evening reception with Abbott & Holder
Thursday 6 November, 5-8pm
Hats off to Tradition – Tales from The Cocked Hat Club
Wednesday 19 November, 6-8pm
