E.G. Blee-Goldman
3,768 posts
I am very interested in startups and Old Masters.
Co-founder @charactervc (pre-seed/seed VC)
Director @bigbackups (directed panspermia)
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Joined January 2010
- Stopping at @metmuseum on the way to the airport (and before a meeting)...high risk of missing my flight ๐ Too much good stuff to see. Now in the cab and back to work!
- A closer look: The Countess of Exeter, ca. 1620 Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen
- Throwback Thursday: Jan de Beer, The Annunciation, sold for $1,215,000 in 2019 @ChristiesInc In the von Sierstorpff family for many years. 67.9 x 52.4 cm
- I think I've read The Embarrassment of Riches by @simon_schama two or three times now. Amazingly perfect balance of academic exactness and readability. If you haven't read it...go experience the best of the 90s this weekend!
- I bought this portrait of Henriette Vroesen by Ludolf de Jongh (dated 1656) for โฌ4.8K a few weeks ago. Here's the strategy I used to buy it that art market INSIDERS don't want you to know โคต๏ธ On the Art of Portrait Acquisition: A Guide in Four Parts 1. The Long Awakening: One
- Letโs just be honest with ourselvesโฆ Lluรญs Dalmau studied directly with Van Eyck in 1431. He didnโt just โseeโ the paintings. Around ten years later he painted this masterpiece in Valencia.
- ยฃ340 a few minutes ago. Not perfect, but very charming and small. Follower of Cornelius Johnson,ย Anglo-Dutch 1593-1661-ย Portrait of a gentleman wearing a ruff;ย oil on paper laid to card, feigned oval, 7.6 x 6.6 cm.
- WEEKEND EDITION โ A Philadelphian Fantasy: letโs compare the Master and the Workshop in two versions of St. Francis by Jan van Eyck. In my opinion the painting by St. Francis by van Eyck in Turin @MuseiRealiTo is the original by van Eyck himself. The copy on vellum in the
- Someone just arrived... And he wants to kick the weekend off right. Let's unbox this bad boy.
- My good friend @Alexand94088187 has written the first catalogue raisonnรฉ on Nicolaes Gillis (1593-1630). Many of us in the Old Masters community have been lucky to know Alexander as one of the sharpest, most dedicated, and overall knowledgeable researchers. And his book is

































