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I deliver public lectures in my field of art history, give lectures to classes, give tailored art history presentations in private and museum gallery settings, as well as lead historic house tours.

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Fees for public speaking engagements are determined by project, and can be billed on an hourly, daily, or per-project basis.  After reviewing the project, I will prepare an estimate of cost.  Please contact me with any questions.

PRIVATE TOURS

  • Guided tour of “Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection” exhibition to Montserrat Trustees and Friends at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. March 24, 2011.
  • Tailored presentations delivered at two private viewings of the Dutch and Flemish old masters collection of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, in their home, to Montserrat Trustees and Friends. October 22, 2006.

PUBLIC LECTURES

  • “Laughing, Loving & Limning in Haarlem: Artistic Collaboration between Judith Leyster & Jan Miense Molenaer.” Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Toronto, Canada, March 2019.
  • “Frans Hals’ Merry Drinker as Comic Portrait.”​ RSA, Boston, April 2016;
  • “Molenaer’s ‘Denial of Saint Peter’: A Socratic Festive Tavern.” RSA, Berlin, March 2015.
  • “The Elevation of the Deformed in Early Modern Religious and Mythological Art.” 16th C. Soc. and Conf., San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2013.
  • “Deconstructing Feminine Civility: Counter-Portraits of Élite Women by Jan Steen.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Washington, DC, March 2012.
  • “The Elephant in the Living Room:  Jan Steen’s Fantasy Interior as Parodic Portrait of the Schoutens.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Venice, Italy, April 2010.
  • “Bean Kings and Brawling Priests: Pairing Epiphany and Easter in Baroque Haarlem.” College Art Association Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, February 2008.
  • “The Wise Man Has Two Tongues: Images of The Satyr and the Peasant by Jordaens and Steen.”  Society for Netherlandic History, New York, NY, June 2006.
  • “‘Raising Havick’: Jan Steen’s Boston Twelfth Night as a Family Affair.”  American Association of Netherlandic Studies Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 2004.
  • “Pairing Rags with Riches: Jan Steen’s Poultry Yard as Pastoral Portrait.”  College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY, February 2003.
  • “Jan Steen and the ‘Socratic Style’: A New Interpretation of The Burgher of Delft.” Mediterranean Studies Association Annual Congress, Aix-en-Provence, May 2001.

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