Henricus Antonius "Han" van Meegeren was a Dutch painter and portraitist, considered one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. Van Meegeren became a national hero after World War II when it was revealed that he had sold a forged painting to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
The Courtauld Institute of Art, commonly referred to as the Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. It is among the most prestigious specialist colleges for the study of the history of art in the world and is known for the disproportionate number of directors of major museums drawn from its small body of alumni.
The Courtauld Gallery is an art museum in Somerset House, on the Strand in central London. It houses the collection of the Samuel Courtauld Trust and operates as an integral part of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Jacob Symonsz. Pynas was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman. He is best known for having briefly taught the painter Rembrandt in 1625.
Geoffrey Burnstock was a neurobiologist and President of the Autonomic Neuroscience Centre of the UCL Medical School. He is best known for coining the term purinergic signalling, which he discovered in the 1970s. He retired in October 2017 at the age of 88.
The Francesco St Jerome is an oil painting on copper attributed to the circle of the Italian Renaissance artist Palma the Younger, dating from c. 1595.
Albert Boime, was an American art historian and author of more than 20 art history books and numerous academic articles. He was a professor of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles for three decades, until his death.
Geoffrey Fairbank Webb CBE was a British art historian, Slade Professor of Fine Art and head of the Monuments and Fine Arts section of the Allied Control Commission during World War II.
The Procuress is the name given to a number of similar paintings by the Dutch Golden Age painter Dirck van Baburen. The painting is in the Caravaggiesque style of the Utrecht school.
Fake or Fortune? is a BBC One documentary television series which examines the provenance and attribution of notable artworks. Since the first series aired in 2011, Fake or Fortune? has drawn audiences of up to 5 million viewers in the UK, the highest for an arts show in that country.
The Procuress is a 1656 oil-on-canvas painting by the then 24-year-old Johannes Vermeer. It can be seen in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. It is his first genre painting and shows a scene of contemporary life, an image of mercenary love perhaps in a brothel. It differs from his earlier biblical and mythological scenes. It is one of only three paintings Vermeer signed and dated. In 1696 the painting, being sold on an auction in Amsterdam, was named "A merry company in a room".
Fritz Grossmann, art historian. Born 26 June 1902 in Stanislau,, now Ivano-Frankivsk in the Ukraine, died 16 November 1984, Croydon, London) was an Austrian-British art historian.
David Hersh Solkin, FBA is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, which he joined in 1986. In 2007, Solkin became the institute's first dean and deputy director. Solkin is an expert in the art of J. M. W. Turner.
David William ParkFSA is a professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, where he is Director of the Conservation of Wall Painting Department. Park is a graduate of Manchester University and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University and has been a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London since 1986.
Henry Keazor is a German art historian. He is a professor of art history at Heidelberg University.
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear is an 1889 self-portrait by Dutch Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The painting is in the collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art and on display in the Gallery at Somerset House. The painting includes inspiration from Japanese Woodblock printing.
Thomas W. Gaehtgens is a German art historian with special interest in French and German art and art history from the 18th to the 20th century. He was the founding director of the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris and was director of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California.
Alois Hauser was a German art restorer, court painter and curator.
Anna-Grethe Rischel née Andersen is a Danish paper conservator and paper historian and president of the International Association of Paper Historians (IPH). Her special interests lie in macroscopic and microscopic studies of paper technology and paper fibres, covering both Asian and European paper.
Shanti Panchal is an Indian-British artist.
