1) It contributes research on individual early modern Netherlandish
women artists and patrons and names women artists, patrons, and those
who-including themselves-promoted and praised their work in their own
time. It thereby provides a foundation for future art historians and
scholars. 2) It features emerging scholars' research and provides a
historiographical corrective with a contemporary perspective on the
state of a feminist Netherlandish art history. 3) The topic is
timely-feminist issues are experiencing a resurgence of interest in the
academy and among a more general readership because of #metoo and the
political realities of the US and Europe.