An Van Camp
Assistant Keeper
Dutch and Flemish drawings and prints before 1880 Department: Prints and Drawings
An Van Camp is the curator responsible for Dutch and Flemish prints and drawings up to the late nineteenth century.
She joined the Department of Prints and Drawings in 2006 as cataloguer of the Dutch and Flemish prints before 1900 during which she created almost 15,000 records for the Museum’s online database. Previously she studied History, Art History and Museum Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and at University College London.
Contact
avancamp@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7323 8406
Current projects
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Researching almost 5,000 drawings made in the Netherlands, Flanders and Belgium from the fifteenth century to the late nineteenth century and developing comprehensive records on the Museum’s online database
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Updating the provenances of the Museum’s Rembrandt etchings on the Museum’s online database
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Researching the Museum’s collection of hand-coloured etchings by Hercules Segers, including conservational examination and scientific analysis
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Preparing a display of the etchings by Hercules Segers (on show in Room 90, 6 January – 6 May 2012)
Previous projects
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Creating online catalogue records for about 15,000 Dutch and Flemish prints from the fifteenth century to the early twentieth century
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Display of the preparatory drawings by Adriaen van Ostade and David Teniers the Younger, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of their births (Room 90, 23 August – 19 December 2010)
Membership of professional bodies
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Member of the programme committee of CODART (International Network for Curators of Art from the Low Countries)
Recent publications
An Van Camp, “Etchings by drawings collector Nicolaes Flinck (1646-1723)”, Print Quarterly 27 (2010), pp. 371-381.
An.Van Camp, 'The Etchings by Drawings Collector Nicolaes Flinck’, Print Quarterly , December 2010
An Van Camp, “Robert Dighton and his spurious collectors’ marks” (forthcoming 2012)