Dr. F.R.R. Vermeylen (Filip)

Filip Vermeylen studied early modern European history at the universities of Antwerp and Leuven. In December 2000, he successfully defended a dissertation on the development of the Antwerp art market during the long sixteenth century at Columbia University in New York. In 2006, Filip Vermeylen joined the ranks of the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He teaches various courses in the Master’s program ‘Cultural Economics and Entrepreneurship’, of which he also acts as the coordinator. He lectures and publishes on various aspects of the economics of art and culture in historical perspective (1400-present). The emphasis of these scholarly endeavors is on the history and functioning of art markets and particularly on the art trade, the pricing of works of art and taste formation, the history of art auctions and the role of art dealers as cultural mediators.

Dr. de Laet (Veerle)

Veerle De Laet (born Lier, 1982) studied early modern European history at the universities of Antwerp and Leuven. From 2005 until 2009, she was appointed as research assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO). She successfully followed the Ph.D. training program of the N.W. Posthumus Institute Groningen, and was a visiting fellow at the art history department of the university of Bordeaux Michel de Montaigne. In September 2009, she defended her dissertation on private art and luxury consumption in seventeenth- and early eighteenth centuries Brussels.

I.R. Steevens (Ineke) MA

Ineke Steevens (born Brugge, 1983) studied Art History and Archeology at the universities of Brussels (V.U.B) and Utrecht. She graduated in 2006 on her thesis Een bijdrage tot het onderzoek naar de relatie tussen de compagnonnage en de monumenten uit de Oudheid aan de hand van de inscripties in de tempel van Diana te Nimes. After her graduation, Ineke worked as a history and language teacher in secondary education.

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PhD project: Mobility of Artists

Karolien de Clippel, Utrecht University

Karolien De Clippel (˚1972) studied Romance philology and art history at Leuven University. In 2002 she obtained her doctorate at the same university with a dissertation on the Brabantine genre painter Joos van Craesbeeck (ca 1606 - ca 1660). From 1998 until 2006 she enjoyed the stimulating entourage of the Antwerp Rubenianum where she worked as a research fellow for the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders and the Research Fund of Leuven University.

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Marloes Hemmer, Utrecht University

Marloes Hemmer studied Art history at the University of Amsterdam where she gained her MA (cum laude) in 2009 with the thesis: The ‘force’ of Rembrandt’s light: a study of the period appreciation of the depiction of light in Rembrandt’s paintings. During an internship in New York she assisted Dr. Walter A. Liedtke (Curator European Paintings) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was active as registrar and research assistant at The Leiden Gallery. In December 2009 she took part in the research project ‘Cultural Transmission and Artistic Exchanges in the Low Countries, 1572-1672: Mobility of Artists, Works of Art and Artistic Knowledge’, funded by NWO where she is writing her PhD dissertation under supervision of Prof. Dr. P.A. Hecht; Prof. Dr. E.J. Sluijter and Dr. K.J. De Clippel.

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PhD project: Mobility of Artistic Knowledge

Eric Jan Sluijter, University of Amsterdam

is chair of the leerstoelgroep Renaissance and Early Modern Art. Together with prof. dr. Lia van Gemert (chair) and prof. dr. Henk van Nierop, he supervises the Amsterdam Centre for Study of the Dutch Golden Age. Eric Jan Sluijter studied art history at Leiden University, from which he also received his PhD. For several years he worked as research fellow at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie in The Hague .

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