Samuel van Hoogstraten Symposium

On 17 April 2025, the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, in collaboration with the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam, will organise a hybrid symposium in honour of the launch of the online catalogue raisonné of the oeuvre of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678). 

In addition to his apprenticeship with Rembrandt, Samuel van Hoogstraten became an inventive artist and writer who constantly experimented with different subjects and was a pioneer in the field of trompe-l'oeil. The catalogue raisonné of his oeuvre will be published in April 2025 in the form of an RKD Study. The online publication describes all of Van Hoogstraten's works. Experts from the Netherlands and abroad contributed their expertise. In addition to this catalogue raisonné, the RKD Study includes an introductory biography and three essays written by Stephanie Dickey, Leonore van Sloten, Michiel Roscam Abbing and David de Witt. 

The launch of the RKD Study marks the end of a large-scale collaborative project between the RKD and the Rembrandt House Museum, where the accompanying exhibition The Illusionist. Samuel van Hoogstraten will be on display till 4 May 2025. To mark this milestone, the RKD and the Rembrandt House Museum, with the support of Bader Philanthropies, are organising a symposium to present the most important findings of the research into Samuel van Hoogstraten that the institutions have carried out in collaboration. The symposium will take place on 17 April at the RKD, with a full programme of various lectures and presentations, which can also be followed online.