2026

Rembrandt Reframed

October 7, 2026 · 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET · Online

Presented by the Association of Print Scholars

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669). St. Jerome Reading in an Italian Landscape, ca. 1653. Etching and drypoint, printed on Japan paper.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 'St. Jerome Reading in an Italian Landscape', ca. 1653. Etching and drypoint, printed on Japan paper. Morgan Library & Museum (RvR 165)

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Speakers

  • Sarah Mallory — Assistant Curator of Prints & Drawings, The Morgan Library & Museum
  • Epco Runia — Head of Collections, Rembrandt House Museum
  • Claire Spadafora Baes — Assistant Curator of Prints & Drawings, LACMA

Moderated by Claire Spadafora Baes, Assistant Curator of Prints & Drawings, LACMA, this panel looks at the legacy of Rembrandt’s prints, taking two exhibitions as the foci: Rembrandt’s Lions: Art and Exile in the Dutch Republic (Oct 2026-Jan 2027, The Morgan Library & Museum) and Rembrandt: Masterpieces in Black and White - Prints from the Rembrandt House Museum (October 2026-Jan 2027, Naples Art Institute, FL). The panel will explore the lasting impact of Rembrandt’s prints, from his technical experimentation to his exploration of themes of migration and global exchange. Presented by the Association of Print Scholars.

*Dr. Sarah W. Mallory* is the Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum, where she oversees the collection of early modern Northern European drawings and prints. She is the organizing curator of 'Rembrandt's Lions: Art and Exile in the Dutch Republic' (October 23, 2026 - January 31, 2027), which features the museum's rarely seen but exceptional collection of Rembrandt etchings alongside several of the artist's most important paintings and drawings. Sarah previously held positions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frick Collection, and Harvard Art Museums, among other institutions. She holds a PhD from Harvard University and M.A. degrees from Parsons the New School for Design and The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Her scholarship, which focuses on seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, environmental histories, and colonial legacies, has appeared in numerous publications, most recently the volume Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade (Brill, 2025), for which she was co-editor and contributing author alongside Dr. Joanna Sheers Seidenstein.

*Epco Runia* is an art historian and specialist in 17th-century Dutch art, particularly Rembrandt. He began his career at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, worked for 18 years at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, and has been with the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam since 2017. As head of Collections and Research, he is responsible for all of the museum’s content-related products, such as exhibitions, books, and the permanent collection. Runia has always operated at the intersection of research and the general public. He has contributed to many highly attended exhibitions, such as The Glory of the Golden Age (Rijksmuseum 2000), Rembrandt? The Case of Saul and David (Mauritshuis 2015), and HERE. Black in Rembrandt’s Time (Rembrandt House 2020). He has written scholarly articles and educational publications and contributed to audio guides, websites, films, TV programs, and podcasts. His goal is to show as wide an audience as possible that Rembrandt’s work is still relevant for contemporary viewers.