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 ...

The Flemish are precise and the Dutch are florid – but they all share a Falstaffian appetite for life. Innkeeper, more beer! Dutch and Flemish art are as different as gouda and pancakes – at least it ...

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 ...

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 Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has consigned 17 works by Dutch and Flemish masters to be sold at two live auctions at Christie’s in New York in February. They are collectively estimated to sell for ...

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 ...

There are a million great places to eat in busy Amsterdam — but sometimes all you want is out of the throngs of tourists that seem to be everywhere. It's not so hard to sneak away. Just one short ...

Hendrick Avercamp's "Winter Landscape near a Village," painted around 1610-1615. (Courtesy Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection/Museum of Fine Arts) A still life of a dog at rest, a Dutch ...

THE collection of pictures forming the germ of what it is so agreeable to have the Revue des Deux Mondes talking of currently as the Musée de New York, has recently been lodged in a handsome 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 ...

Most people here have very sensible things to say, but I would like to add one more thing. I am Flemish, and during my training as an interpreter, I was taught to use 'standard' Dutch in the booth.