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Angela Jager MA (1984) studied art history at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and graduated (cum laude) in 2010 with a monographic thesis on the Amsterdam history painter Carel van Savoyen (c. 1620-1665). Between March 2010 and August 2011 she worked as research assistant at the Collections Department of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten; her research focused on the collection of drawings and prints and the history of the Amsterdam Drawing Academy (Amsterdamse Stadstekenacademie; c. 1718-1822). As research assistant of Prof. dr Eric Jan Sluijter at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, from November 2010 until March 2011 she contributed to the NWO-project ‘Artistic and economic competition in the Amsterdam art market c. 1630-1690: history painting in Amsterdam in Rembrandt’s time’. In September 2011 Jager started her PhD-research entitled “Galey-painters and works-by-the-dozen. The production and consumption of history painting at the lower end of the Amsterdam art market in the seventeenth century”, supervised by EricJan Sluijter, Marten Jan Bok and Harm Nijboer (‘Galey-Schilders’ en ‘dosijnwerck’. De productie en consumptie van historieschilderijen aan de onderkant van de Amsterdamse kunstmarkt in de zeventiende eeuw).

Research

Her PhD-research will explore the production of cheap history paintings (‘works-by-the-dozen’ or produced ‘on the galley’, as they were called), which were supplied by a group of painters and art dealers that worked exclusively at this end of the market. The main goal of this project is to attain insight into the styles, iconographies and functions of those cheaply produced paintings. Another important aspect of the project is to come to grips with the way these artists operated in the very competitive Amsterdam art market, what their options and limitations were and what motivated them to specialize in this type of history paintings. Attention is also given to the buyers and art dealers who participated in this market, in order to understand how this segment of the Amsterdam art market related to the high-quality end of that same market. To accomplish this goal, a variety of methodological approaches will be applied.

Publications

2012:

 

‘“Kunstrijck schilder” De Amsterdamse historieschilder Carel van Savoyen (c. 1620-1665)’, in preparation for Oud Holland.

 

‘Bernard Picart en de ‘hartstogten’. Detailstudies naar een carton van Raphael’, in preparation for Delineavit & Sculpsit.

 

2011:

‘Een zeventiende-eeuws ensemble in situ. Van Bronckhorst,Holsteyn en Van Loo in het Oudezijds Huiszittenhuis’, accepted by Amstelodamum.

 

2008:

‘Als koningin op de troon. De verheerlijking van de Amsterdamse zeevaart’, Amstelodamum, vol. 95, no. 3-4: pp. 67-80. 

Lectures

2012:

‘Cheap, gaudy and spectacular. The mass market for history painting in the Dutch Golden Age’, European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow (11-14 April 2012)

 

2008:

‘Als koningin op de troon. De verheerlijking van de Amsterdamse zeevaart’, symposium ‘De oude meesters van de stad Amsterdam’, Amsterdams Historisch Museum (8 July 2008)

Exhibitions

2007:

Beeld voor beeld: klassieke sculptuur in prent, Allard Pierson Museum (15 June - 9 September 2007)