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Johannes Vermeer by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.
Johannes Vermeer by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.







In 1982, at the time of the Dutch-American Bicentennial, he was named Knight Officer in the Order of the Orange-Nassau by the Dutch government. He has received a number of honors throughout his career. He also organized The Public and Private in the Age of Vermeer at the Osaka Municipal Museum, Japan, in 2000. Wheelock has also organized a number of major exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, including Gods, Saints, & Heroes: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt (1980) Anthony van Dyck (1990) Johannes Vermeer (1995) Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller (1996) A Collector’s Cabinet (1998) From Botany to Bouquets: Flowers in Northern Art (1999) Gerrit Dou: Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt (2000) Aelbert Cuyp (2001) Gerard ter Borch (2004) Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits (2005) Amorous Intrigue and Painterly Refinement: The Art of Frans van Mieris (2006) Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered (2008) Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age (2009) Hendrick Avercamp: The Little Ice Age(2010) Gabriel Metsu, 1629-1667(2011) Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst (2012) Pleasure and Piety: The Art of Joachim Wtewael, 1566–1638(2015) Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt(2016) and Vermeer and Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry(2017). In 2014, Wheelock revised and expanded his catalogue of the Dutch collection as an online edition. Wheelock, who has lectured widely on Dutch and Flemish art, has written many articles and a number of books and catalogues, including Perspective, Optics, and Delft Artists around 1650 (1977) Jan Vermeer (1981) Vermeer and the Art of Painting (1995) the catalogue of the Dutch collection at the National Gallery of Art, Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century (1995) and the catalogue of the Flemish collection at the Gallery, Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century (2005). He was appointed curator of Dutch and Flemish painting at the Gallery in 1975 and retired in 2018. In 1974, he began his teaching career at the University of Maryland. He came to the National Gallery of Art in 1973 as the David E.

Johannes Vermeer by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. Johannes Vermeer by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.

He was raised in Uxbridge, Massachusetts before attending Phillips Exeter Academy, Williams College, and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1973.

Johannes Vermeer by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.

is the former curator of northern baroque paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and professor of art history at the University of Maryland, College Park.









Johannes Vermeer by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.