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Threads of Mystery. Dress Code in the Work of Rembrandt Pupil Monogrammist I.S.
Dr Marieke de Winkel

A painter now only known by the initials “I.S.” produced a small but significant body of work in seventeenth-century Northern Europe. For the first time, an international research and exhibition project has now shed more light on this mysterious artist, who has long been linked to the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669). Renowned specialist in the history of dress Dr. Marieke de Winkel discusses what clues can be found about the artist’s possible identity when carefully observing the clothing depicted in I.S.’s work.

Professor Dr. Marieke de Winkel is the Ottema-Kingma Foundation Professor for the History of Textiles and Dress at Radboud University, Nijmegen. She received her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2003, and has published widely on Rembrandt and his depictions of dress. Her influential first book, Fashion and Fancy. Dress and Meaning in Rembrandt’s Paintings, was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2006. She also co-authored A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, vol. V (2010) and Rembrandt: the Complete Paintings (2019).

This program is supported by the Bader Legacy Fund and presented in partnership with the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, in recognition of Bader Day at Queen’s University.

Curated by Dr Suzanne van de Meerendonk, Bader Curator of European Art. This program is supported by the Bader Legacy Fund and in partnership with The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, in recognition of Bader Day at Queen’s University.