Femke Valkhoff is a PhD candidate at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 within the project How do Cities Make Women? Empowerment, Self-Development, and Learned Identities in the Early Modern Dutch City. Her interdisciplinary research explores how women in the early modern period were able to develop intellectually within various Dutch cities.
Before joining Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, Femke Valkhoff worked as a junior teacher at the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam) and as a junior researcher on the project Women at the RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History. During her studies at the 木瓜福利影视 of Amsterdam, she interned with the project , which examines the influence of women on the Dutch art market in the seventeenth century by studying household consumption. Simultaneously, she interned with the project, which explores the museum鈥檚 collection from a gender perspective and makes these stories accessible to the public. Her research on the portrait of Maritge Vooght, painted by Frans Hals, resulted in an article for The Rijksmuseum Bulletin and the award-winning master鈥檚 thesis 鈥極ut of the Shadows,鈥� which explores the role of Haarlem female brewers within their families, breweries, and as art collectors for their households.
Publications
鈥楩rans Hals: Portrait of Maritge Cleasdr Vooght鈥� in (Berlin: Gem盲ldegalerie, 2024), 138-139. Exhibition Catalog.
, The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 71 (2023) 1: 32-41.