Douwes Fine Art - Dealings with Museums around the World

During the past two centuries Douwes Fine Art has had the privilege to negotiate private sales and sell directly to museums world wide

Douwes Fine Art has sold important paintings to prestigious museums in the United States. These include the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, for which we negotiatied "Merry Company on a Terrace" on canvas by Jan Steen. (see first picture on the right)

To the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art we added, among others, an important work by Henrick Avercamp, a still life by Jan Davidsz. de Heem and a landscape by Ryckhals/Teniers.

To the Norton Simon Foundation in Pasadena we furnished a Nicolaes Maes and a still life by Ambrosius Bosschaert (see second picture on the right). In addition, a fine example of Aert de Gelder was brought to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. (see below )

In Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne was also enriched with a painting by Aert de Gelder that was handled by us.

In Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts purchased an important series of drawings by Goltzius from us.

In Europe, works that went through our hands went to various museums. A painting by J. Camphuysen to the Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe, Germany and a Jan Peeter's drawing was sold to the Amiens Museum, France.

In The Netherlands, we supplied to The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, the Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Museum Twente in Enschede and to the Dordrechts Museum in Dordrecht.

Douwes Fine Art has also contributed to Private Collections

Our Family Firm has been able to contribute to important collections worldwide. Some examples are:

  • The Frits Lugt Collection, Paris
  • Van Beuningen Collection, Rotterdam
  • Wetzlar collection, Amsterdam
  • Three generation Dreesmann Collection, Netherlands
  • Collection B. Geus van den Heuvel
  • Private Collections in South Africa, South America, Japan, Russia and Europe

At the end of the 1970s Douwes Fine Art was also able to contribute to the Collection of Queen Beatrix.