Biografie
Harriet Stoop- de Meester (1964)
Education
- 1983 – 1986 Fashion academy Charles Montagne (cum laude)
- 1998 – 2004 Master History of Art, University of Amsterdam
- 2012 – 2020 workshops Gooische Academie, Figura
Work
Fashion designer
Freelance Art historian
Research, curating, advising on portrait commissions, lectures and presentations on different art historical subjects.
Expert on Gerrit Lundens (1622-1686). Auteur of monograph of the painter and the catalogue of his oeuvre. Holder of the Lundens-archive
2004 - presentFounder of the Maun shop
Selling art and craft made by rural communities in Botswana to stimulate the local economy.
Sculptor
Other activities
- 2009 – 2018, member of the board The Foundation Friends of Singer Laren.
- Head Anna Singer Artotheek’-committee of The Foundation Friends of Singer, curator of the exhibition of 40 contemporary artists twice a year. Annual lecture about participants and their works.
- Member of the jury of the Singer award 2013 and 2017 and of the Singer Portrait award 2012
- 2017, 2019, 2021, Member of the jury of DNP (De Nederlandse Portretprijs)
- 2021 – present, Member Bestuur Stichting Fogelsanghstate.
- 2022 – present, Member Raad van Toezicht DNP
Publications and articles
- PORTRETTEN VAN PORTRETTISTEN / PORTRETISTEN NU. Harriet Stoop- de Meester and Cathinka Huizing, Waanders, Zwolle 2010. Publication and exhibition about 25 Dutch leading contemporary portrait painters, Kasteel Het Nijenhuis, Heino, Zwolle 2010.
- DUTCH IDENTITY, Dutch contemporary portrait photographers, Harriet Stoop- de Meester and Cathinka Huizing, Waanders & de Kunst, Zwolle 2016. Publication and exhibition in Museum De Fundatie, showing the quality and diversity of Dutch contemporary portrait photography.
- 2018, PIET OUDOLF, DE SINGERTUIN, Harriet Stoop- de Meester, Singer Laren, 2018. Publication and exhibition about the garden of Museum Singer Laren and about internationally renowned Dutch gardenarchitect Piet Oudolf his garden designs all over the world.
- GERRIT LUNDENS, his copy after The Night Watch and the derivatives in his oeuvre, Rijksmuseum Bulletin, volume 68/2, 2020.
- GUN DE NACHTWACHT ZIJN VOLLE GLORIE, If you consider a full reconstruction of The Night Watch, argues Harriet Stoop-de Meester, the painting will be as Rembrandt had in mind: a dynamic civic guard portrait. NRC, September 25/26 2021.
