Long overdue in the history of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, this volume foregrounds women as creators, patrons, buyers, and agents of change in the arts of the Low Countries. Venturing beyond the participation of exceptional individuals, chapters investigate how women produced paintings, sculptures, scientific illustrations, and tapestries as well as their role in architectural patronage and personalized art collections. Teasing out a variety of socio-economic, legal, institutional, and art-theoretical dimensions of female agency, the volume highlights the role of visual culture in womens lived experience and self-representation, asking to what extent women challenged, subverted, or confirmed societal norms in the Netherlands.
NKJ volume 74: Women
Edited by Elizabeth Honig, Judith Noorman, and Thijs Weststeijn
Introduction
Dynamic Partnership: The Work of Married Women in Dutch Seventeenth-Century
Artists Households
Marleen Puyenbroek
The Sculptor and the Sculptress: Gendering Sculpture Production in the Early
Modern Low Countries
Elizabeth Rice Mattison
The Images and the Interventions of Adriana Perez in the Rockox Collection
Kendra Grimmett
Household Heroines: Maria van Nesses Memory-Book and the Interplay between
the Art Market and Household Consumption
Judith Noorman
Weaving a Business: Clara de Honts (16641751) Tapestry Workshop in
Amsterdam
Rudy Jos Beerens
Situational Awareness and Practices of Exchange in the Art of Johanna Helena
Herolt and
Alida Withoos
Catherine Powell-Warren
Cultivating a Female Presence in the Early Eighteenth-Century Learned
Community: The Printed Portraits of Maria de Wilde (16821729)
Lieke van Deinsen
Unmarried, Married, Widowed and Dead: Female Patrons of Architecture in
Amsterdam (16801800)
Pieter Vlaardingerbroek
Caretaker of a Collection: The Case of Jo van Bilderbeek-Lamaison
Bert-Jaap Koops
We Could Hardly Refuse Them: Alida Pott and the Women of De Ploeg, 19181931
Anneke de Vries
Elizabeth Alice Honig is Professor of Northern European Art at the University of Maryland, and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. She works on Dutch, Flemish, and British art.
Judith Noorman is Associate Professor in Early Modern Art History at the University of Amsterdam. From 2021 to 2026, she is Principal Investigator of The Female Impact, a research project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
Thijs Weststeijn is Professor of Art History before 1800 at Utrecht University, where he chairs the research project The Dutch Global Age (20232028).
