Nine essays explore the study and collecting of Netherlandish art in Cambridge.
The Speelman Fellowship in Netherlandish Art at Wolfson College, Cambridge, celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2011. Holders of the Fellowship have included such world-renowned scholars as Dr Lorne Campbell of the National Gallery, London, Professor Joanna Woodall of the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Professor Ivan Gaskell of the Bard Institute in New York. They have all contributed to the present volume, which presents new research by no fewer than seven Speelman Fellows and is edited by the post's present incumbent.
Introduction written by the editor Meredith McNeill Hale
Lorne Campbell (Speelman Fellow, 1971-74), ANTOINE, THE 'GRAND BÂTARD DE BOURGOGNE', AND HIS PORTRAIT BY ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN
Joanna Woodall (Speelman Fellow, 1980-82), 'Greater or lesser?' Tuning into the pendants of the Five Senses by Jan Brueghel the Elderand his companions
Ivan Gaskell (Speelman Fellow, 1983-87), Fooled Again: Trompe l'Oeil Revisited
Maria-Isabel Pousão-Smith (Speelman Fellow, 1992-96), Adriaen Brouwer's Hybrid Technique and Social Indeterminacy
Lindsey Shaw-Miller (Speelman Fellow, 1996-2000), 'Beautiful Secrets': Poetical Disclosure in the Work of Michael Sweerts (1618-64)
Cordula van Wyhe (Speelman Fellow, 2000-05), The Fabric of Female Rule in Leone Leoni's Statue of Mary of Hungary, c. 1556
Meredith McNeill Hale (Speelman Fellow, 2009-present), The business of satire: the satirist and the problem of conviction
Jean Michel Massing and Meredith McNeill Hale, The Speelman Fellowship and the Study of Netherlandish art in Cambridge
Elenor Ling (Department of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Fitzwilliam Museum), The Dutch and Flemish print albums compiled by Lord Fitzwilliam (1745-1816) at the Fitzwilliam Museum