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Rijksmuseum Receives Rare Book of Drawings From the 17th Century

The Van Eeghen sketchbook contains 30 drawings and rare color preservation after centuries in private hands, the museum said.

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A book of drawings stewarded by the Van Eeghen family for more than three centuries has been donated to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has received a rare sketchbook as a gift. It is a seventeenth-century book containing thirty drawings that have remained completely intact because they were barely exposed to light. Some of the drawings are by the Frisian painter Rombout Uylenburgh. Little is known about Uylenburgh's oeuvre. Besides a small number of paintings, only two of his drawings have surfaced after his lifetime. One of these is in the collecti…

·Hilversum, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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The book containing thirty virtually unknown drawings by painter Rombout van Uylenburgh is completely unique in the Netherlands.

·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Het Parool broke the news on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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