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Drs. J.M.P. Schaeps is Curator of Prints and Drawings at Leiden University

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Jacob Ernst Marcus - Sint Eustatius-born artist

The artist Jacob Ernst Marcus is one of the very few with Antillean roots in the eighteenth century.

Jef Schaeps • September 28, 2023

Women artists in the Leiden Special Collections (Part 2)

Two years ago, I wrote a blog about women artists in the collection of the University Library. The focus was on recent acquisitions and living artists. This new episode can be considered a prequel and discusses women artists in the Leiden collections from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Jef Schaeps • June 28, 2022

Leiden University’s third centenary and jubilee (1875)

The fifteenth of June 1875 was a pleasant and warm day. Some menacing clouds threatened to throw a spanner in the works, but luckily the rain never came. Fortunate for the crowds gathering in Leiden, as on this day, Leiden University celebrated its three hundredth anniversary.

Jef Schaeps • April 20, 2021