Take some time to visit the Johannesburg Art Gallery to view its Dutch collection, representing one of our most important collections of art from the Golden Age, when the Dutch Republic was the most prosperous country in Europe.

Prior to the 17th century, when church patronage dominated in Holland and Flanders, Dutch paintings became fashionable in the homes of the bourgeoisie.

The rise of pictorial genres first occurred in this period: histories, biblical, mythological, allegorical, landscape, still life with a moralistic message or with a vanitas theme concerning the brevity of life, genre representations of everyday life and portraits. This exhibition is arranged to best display these varying categories.

This exhibition comprises artwork in various media by a host of Dutch and Flemish masters, such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Esias Boursse, Pieter Claesz, Gerrit van Deurs, Jacob Duck, Lambert Jacobsz, Ludolph de Jongh, Frans de Momper, and Anthonie Palamedesz, amongst others.

The gallery is closed on Mondays.