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Recent evidence suggests that Mayken Verhulst (ca. 1518–1599), the mother-in-law of Pieter Brueghel the Elder, authored works long attributed to the anonymous Brunswick Monogrammist. A key painting, *Ecce Homo* from the National Museum in Gdańsk, bears a unique double signature combining the initials of her husband, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, with her family name “Bessemer,” indicating her authorial role within the workshop. This discovery, detailed in an essay from the exhibition *The Woman Question 1550–2025* at the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, challenges centuries of art-historical attribution.

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“Dutch Art in a Global Age” at the Kimbell Art Museum

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, is presenting "Dutch Art in a Global Age," an exhibition organized by the Center of Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The show features over a hundred seventeenth-century Dutch paintings, including seascapes and still lifes by artists such as Ludolf Bakhuizen, Willem van Aelst, and Adriaen Coorte, alongside a Japanese woodblock book from the late eighteenth century that highlights the global reach of Dutch maritime trade.