Marjorie E. Wieseman

Since 2019 Marjorie E. Wieseman has been curator and head of the department of northern European paintings at the National Gallery of Art. A specialist in 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting, she has published widely on various topics, with a particular interest in genre painting, portraiture (including portrait miniatures), technical art history, and the history of collecting. She has curated or cocurated numerous exhibitions, including Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens (2004), A Closer Look: Deceptions and Discoveries (2010), Vermeer’s Women (2011), Vermeer and Music (2013), Rembrandt: The Late Works (2014), Clouds, Ice, and Bounty: The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings (2021), and Vermeer’s Secrets (2022).