• Source: Adam Eaker

Adam Eaker is an American art historian and curator currently serving as an Associate Curator in the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2016, with a specialization in British painting, and particularly the work of Anthony van Dyck produced in England. He is considered an authority on the work of the painter. He was supervised for his dissertation by David Freedberg.
Eaker is an adjunct associate lecturer of art history at Barnard College. His curatorial work has significantly impacted the presentation and understanding of Northern European, and specifically English art, in North America.




Career


Earlier in his career, Eaker was a fellow at the Rubenianum Research Institute for Flemish Art in Antwerp. While at the Frick he curated an exhibition organized around the six paintings by Van Dyck in the museum's collection.
Eaker joined The Metropolitan Museum after serving as an Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow and guest curator at the Frick Collection. Since starting at The Metropolitan Museum, he has continued to focus on the study and presentation of European painting through research, exhibition planning, and managing the Dutch and Flemish art during gallery renovations, enhancing the museum's collection.
The Metropolitan Museum has acquired several notable artworks guided by Eaker's curatorial work, including a painting by Francesco Renaldi of an eighteenth-century Mughal woman that was previously in a private collection. The work was acquired from Sotheby's of London.
In addition to his curatorial work, Eaker has contributed to various art history anthologies and exhibition catalogs, offering new insights into the interpretation of seventeenth-century Flemish and English paintings. His lectures and presentations at academic conferences, have also played a key role in advancing the scholarly discourse surrounding Northern European painting.
Since July 2023, Eaker has been affiliated with the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art as the seventeenth-century Flemish area editor for the journal's reviews section.




Books


Van Dyck, with Stijn Alsteens (Frick Collection, 2016)
Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022)
Gesina Ter Borch (Getty Publications, 2024)




Exhibitions


Eaker has organized and curated several notable exhibitions, also authoring their publications, including:

Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture (2016)
In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at the Met
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England (2022-2023)




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Adam Eaker
• Jewels of Mary I of England
• Anthony van Dyck
• Blanche Parry
• Margaret Hartsyde
• Affabel Partridge
• Robert Brandon
• Adam Schwadron
• Felton Perry
• Karen Allen