Marjorie E. Wieseman
Curator and head of the department of northern European paintings
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).