Mauritshuis currently has 170 works on display as part of its “My Girl with a Pearl” initiative while Vermeer’s masterpiece is on loan

Surrealist work is estimated to make €2m at Sotheby's

As the Rijksmuseum's once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster brings together an unprecedented number of works by the Old Master, paintings including a self-portrait are still missing

As the "unmissable" show opens at the Rijksmuseum we talk to the curators, the museum's director and artist Alvaro Barrington

Prinsenhof Museum show in Delft opens along with landmark Rijksmuseum exhibition on Dutch 17th-century painter

Fans encouraged to send versions of the famous 17th-century painting for 'My Girl with a Pearl' initiative at The Mauritshuis

Dutch police have arrested three people at the Mauritshuis in The Hague

The downgrading follows a study of the six paintings in the museum's collection thought to be by the Dutch master, which are now the subject of an exhibition detailing the findings

German health minister warns that by the end of the winter, everyone will be “vaccinated, recovered or dead”

The story of enigmatic artist Jacobus Vrel will be told in an exhibition scheduled for 2023 and in a book published this month

Plus, its enduring market appeal and new secrets revealed in a restored Vermeer

Major restoration on Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window shows a large studded goblet later covered by a green curtain

Dresden exhibition will include Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window along with key international loans and works by other Dutch Golden Age artists

Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures post, held by Desmond Shawe-Taylor, will be ‘lost and held in abeyance’

The show promises to be “one of the most spectacular” in the newly renovated museum's history

Participants worldwide re-created famous works by Vermeer, Munch and Klimt—using everyday household items

A Young Woman with a Wine Glass and a Musician playing a Tenor Recorder could be a copy of a work by the great Dutch painter

Extensive scientific testing of the Frick’s Mistress and Maid proves that it was not finished by someone else

Mauritshuis museum's detailed technical examination uncovers new findings on the Dutch artist's brushwork, pigments and technique

A V&A employee creates a to-scale exhibition of masterpieces for his gerbils while in lockdown

The world’s greatest unsolved art theft continues to obsess—and stump—investigators

The story behind the revealing of Cupid in one of Vermeer's greatest masterpieces, and Helen Cammock on her Whitechapel show and nomination for this year's Turner Prize

The uncovered figure changes the composition of Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window

Laboratory tests revealed "sensational" discovery that the figure in Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window was overpainted decades after the artist’s death

The 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt this year has prompted a glut of exhibitions devoted to the Dutch artist and his peers

Munich museum has undergone a four-year €12m renovation

A team of international specialists are studying Girl with a Pearl Earring for two weeks straight

A Scotland Yard report shows that the notorious Dutch faker bought lapis lazuli paint for his “Vermeers” in bulk from Winsor & Newton