Yesterday, Thursday 27 June 2019, ‘Operation Night Watch’ kicked off in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum. The painting will undergo a major cleaning-up and restoration. It’s last restauration was over 40 years ago, following an attack on the painting with a knife in 1975. During the Rijksmuseum’s continued monitoring program, it has… Read More »2019-06-doc4 The Night Watch in the Dutch courts?
‘I doubt you will find any new document on Rembrandt, as all written documents, all notarial deeds, all registrations, all shreds of evidence on any aspct of his life is known and docemented’, an American art historian and Rembrandt specialist told me a year and a half ago. In science… Read More »2019-06-doc2 Rembrandt studied in Leiden in 1620. But also in 1622?
Op 24 mei 2019 vindt in Leiden het congres van Suum Cuique plaats, met het thema ‘Kunst en Recht’. Suum Cuique is de mastervereniging voor Civiel Recht van de Universiteit Leiden. Programma: 12.45 Inloop 13.00 Welkom door dagvoorzitter, professor Egbert Koops 13.30 – 14.15 mr. Paul Russell (Russell Advocaten) –… Read More »2019-05-doc3 Rembrandt (1606-1669) en het civiele recht
In September last year I reported about my research into the bankruptcy (cessio bonorum) of Rembrandt. In the Netherlands, Rembrandt is hot as this year it is 350 years that he passed away. Also abroad there is interest and I was interviewed last year for a BBC programme. See blog/2018-09-doc3-the-bankruptcy-of-rembrandt-interview-bbc.… Read More »2019-03-doc13 Looking for Rembrandt
Zie uit naar het verzorgen van de Dieslezing voor het Dispuut voor Romeins recht en Europese rechtsgeschiedenis Philips van Leyden b.p., verbonden aan de Leiden Law School. Datum: woensdag 12 december 2018. Onderwerp: het faillissement van Rembrandt. Bijeenkomst: KOG, Steenschuur 25, Leiden. Programma: Borrel: 17.30u (B025); Lezing: 18.30u (B035). Organisatie… Read More »2018-12-doc3 Lezing: het failllissement van Rembrandt
In Autumn 2017, I started my research into the financial distress of Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt. More specifically I am interested in the cessio bonorum proceedings, which started in 1656. See blog/2017-11-05-rembrandt. The BBC intends to broadcast a 3 times 60 minutes programme and it was with great pleasure… Read More »2018-09-doc3 The ‘bankruptcy’ of Rembrandt – interview BBC
After having published two books in my series Insolvency Law (Wessels Insolventierecht) and a large report for the European Law Institute on Business rescue in insolvency law (with my German colleague Stephan Madaus) this year, I head to something (not completely) different, the well-known Dutch painter Rembrandt (or: Rembrandt van… Read More »2017-11-doc5-Rembrandt