Call for papers: cross-cultural exchange between the Low Countries and Britain 1500-1800

Codart is an international network for curators of art from the Low Countries as a guide to Dutch and Flemish art in museums worldwide. On 22 September 2022, Codart organises the symposium Close Encounters at the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History on the annotated and illustrated digital English language version of Horst Gerson's chapter on ‘England’ from The Dispersal and Legacies of Dutch Seventeeth-Century Painting in 1942. Gerson studied the integration of Dutch art in Britain as followed by the flow of Dutch and Flemish migrants in the seventeenth century. As Codart elaborates, the launch of the translated and annotated version of Gerson’s text marks the perfect occasion to discuss, contextualise, and rethink his original ideas in the light of present and developing knowledge.

Therefore, Codart launches a call for papers - inviting historians of Dutch seventeenth-century art production - to write about the cross-cultural exchange between the Low Countries and Britain in the fifteenth till eighteenth centuries. The papers might address themes as fresh approaches to the careers of practitioners from the Low Countries at the British and Scottish courts and in UK urban centres, the linked social networks and professional relationships, workshop practices and techniques, and the market developments for Dutch and Flemish artistic goods in Britain.  

When and where?
Close Encounters will be a hybrid symposium to allow for national and international COVID-19 restrictions. Speakers and attendees may choose whether to participate in person or online. For those presenters who decide to come to The Hague, travel and accommodation expenses will be covered (in consultation with the organization).

The deadline for application for the papers is 1 March 2022. Speakers will be notified by 1 April 2022. Selected presentations will be considered for publication.