Important Museums & Collections
which have acquired works at Douwes Fine Art
Callewaert Vanlangendonck Collection, Belgium
John Selbach Collection, Belgium
The Collection of Gerard & Kitty Valkier, Belgium
Collection Boël, Belgium.
The Collection Jaap Mulders, The Netherlands
Helmantel Collection, The Netherlands
The Dreesmann Collection, The Netherlands
John and Marine van Vlissingen Collection, The Netherlands
The Meentwijck Collection, The Netherlands
Beatrix van Oranje-Nassau Collection, The Netherlands
Caldic Collection of J. van Caldenborgh, The Netherlands
Collection P. & N. de Boer, The Netherlands
The Ritman Collection, The Netherlands
Collection D. Scheringa & B. Scheringa-De Vries, The Netherlands
The Kremer Collection, The Netherlands
Collection Willem baron van Dedem, The Netherlands
Collection Jo van Regteren Altena & Marie van Regteren Altena, The Netherlands
The Six Collection, The Netherlands.
Collection Abraham Bredius, The Netherlands
Collection Jacques Goudstikker, The Netherlands
Collection Jan Rijsdijk, The Netherlands
Singer Collection, The Netherlands
Stichting Louis Raemakers, The Netherlands
Stichting Willem van der Vorm, The Netherlands
The Nardinc Collection, The Netherlands
Fondation Custodia Collection of Frits Lugt, France
The Reijtenbagh Collection, Luxembourg
The E.G. Bührle Collection, Switzerland
The Kornfeld Collection, Switzerland
Bazhenova Collection, Monaco.
Leiden Collection of Thomas S. Kaplan, USA
Samuel H. Kress Collection, USA.
The Heinz Collection, USA
The Bader Collection, USA.
Geoff Palmer Collection, USA
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam
Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam
Het Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam
Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Amsterdam Museum
COBRA Museum for Modern Art, Amstelveen
Marine Museum, Den Helder
Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Museum Prinsenhof, Delft
Mauritshuis, Den Haag
Museum Bredius, Den Haag
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
Dordrechts Museum
Museum Gouda
Katwijks Museum
Museum De Lakenhal
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Westfries Museum, Hoorn
Singer Museum Laren
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede
Museum Flehite, Amersfoort
Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht
Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg
Paleis het Loo, Apeldoorn
Anton Pieck Museum, Hattem
Groninger Museum
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Noordbrabants Museum
Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar
Breda’s Museum
The Wallace Collection, London
The Courtauld Gallery, London
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The National Gallery, London
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, OH
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Frick Collection, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Toledo Museum of Arts, Toledo, OH
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, MN
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, Ca
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va.
Cincinnati Art Museum.
The Nelson-Atkin Museum of Art, Kansas City
IWS Museum, Handan
Musée du Louvre, Paris
The Wallraf–Richartz Museum, Köln
Alte Pinakothek, München
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Museumslandschaft Hessen, Kassel
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Museum of Fine Arts (Szépművészeti Múzeum) Budapest
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Ukrainian National Museum, Kiev
During 130 years of filing by the various Douwes generations and dedicated volunteers we can browse through over 400.000 illustrations and thousands of books and catalogues from auctions and dealers worldwide. Our additional slide library contains over 40.000 images and we are in the process of digitalizing this quality product.
The illustration and photo library contains unique documentation and forms the backbone of the company’s expertise. During research we first check our own files and extensive book library before studying elsewhere. Upon request art historians are welcome to use our facilities. At past and present we were able to help insurers discover the authenticity of stolen works after questionable claims.
At Douwes Fine Art we feel blessed to keep using unique material dating back to professionalised photography since the end of the 19th century.
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