Arthur K. Wheelock. Jr.
Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Art
Email: a-wheelock@nga.gov
Telephone: (301) 405-8363
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., an expert on seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, is curator of Northern Baroque painting at the National Gallery of Art. He has received a number of grants and other distinctions throughout his career, including the Johannes Vermeer Prize for outstanding achievement in Dutch art. He has been named Knight Officer in the Order of Orange - Nassau by the Dutch government and Commander in the Order of Leopold I by the Belgium government. He is author of Perspective, Optics and Delft Artists around 1650, Jan Vermeer, Vermeer and the Art of Painting, Dutch Painting of the Seventeenth Century, and Flemish Painting of the Seventeenth Century. He has written numerous articles and reviews in art journals, including the Art Bulletin, Burlington Magazine , Oud Holland, Simiolus, Connaissance des Arts, and Artibus et Historiae. A noted authority on Vermeer and Rembrandt, he has lectured widely on those two masters. Among the exhibitions Professor Wheelock has organized are Gods, Saints and Heroes, Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, Johannes Vermeer, Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller ; A Collector's Cabinet, From Botany to Bouquets: Flowers in Northern Art, Aelbert Cuyp, Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits, Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age, and Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered.

