Angela Jager

Angela Jager (born 1984) is a Dutch art historian and curator, known for her research and contributions to the fields of Dutch Golden Age painting and Flemish painting. She is Curator of Dutch and Flemish Old Master Painting at the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, in The Hague.

Education Angela Jager received her PhD in 2016 from the University of Amsterdam. Her doctoral research focused on inexpensive paintings in seventeenth-century Amsterdam and was based in part on the study of over 300 probate inventories from lower-middle-class households.

That same year, won the Association of Research Institutes in Art History Prize for Online Publishing for her article “‘Everywhere illustrious histories that are a dime a dozen’: The Mass Market for History Painting in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam,” published in the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art.

Career Following her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, where she studied a large private collection of Old Master paintings. From 2019 to 2021, she was a researcher at the University of Geneva, contributing to the RKD-database "Visiting the Golden Age".

In November 2021, Jager was appointed as Curator of Dutch and Flemish Old Master Painting at the RKD. In this role, she is also working on a collection catalogue of Dutch and Flemish old master paintings from the Nivaagaards Malerisamling in Denmark, alongside Jørgen Wadum.

Research and grants Jager's research interests include the international art trade in the early modern period, workshop production, and the interpretation of archival sources related to artists and art dealers. She has received significant grants, including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant for her research.