Collecting Dutch Golden Age Paintings: A Personal Journey

This engaging book presents the rarely discussed collector’s view of acquiring and bringing back to life a series of Dutch Golden Age landscape paintings. Alan Short’s personal journey as a collector started with his efforts towards the identification and restitution of a painting by Dutch artist Philips Wouwerman (1619-68), which had been in his family but was tragically lost during the family’s flight from Germany in the very late 1930s. Although the identification of this painting has so...