Join us for this opportunity to hear from four engaging early career curators based in the UK and US as they discuss their recent or upcoming exhibitions that highlight northern drawings. These curators represent four distinct types or collections: a public municipal museum, a private museum, a university museum, and a private collection.  Panelists will give short presentations about their exhibitions and how they engage with their respective collections, followed by a lively panel conversation about their curatorial projects and experiences.

Panelists:
Olenka Horbatsch, Curator of Dutch, Flemish and German prints and drawings, 1400-1800 at the British Museum, London
Early Netherlandish drawings 1400–1600
British Museum,  April 16 – September 20, 2026

Sarah Mallory, Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Rembrandt’s Lions: Art and Exile in the Dutch Republic
Morgan Library & Museum, October 23, 2026 – January 31, 2027

Elizabeth R. Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
Drawing Taught in all its Branches: Selections from the Collection before 1820
Hood Museum of Art, March 20 – May 22, 2027

Anita V. Sganzerla, Curator for the Katrin Bellinger Collection, London
Imagining the artist at work in Northern drawings – recent acquisitions

Moderators:
Alesa Boyle, Co-founder & CEO, Trois Crayons, London
Greg Rubinstein, Head of Old Master & Early British Drawings, Worldwide at Sotheby’s

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Panelist bios:

Olenka Horbatsch is (since 2017) curator of Dutch, Flemish and German prints and drawings (pre 1880) at the British Museum. Before joining the Museum, she completed her PhD at the University of Toronto on Netherlandish printmaking and obtained museum experience in Toronto, Berlin and Amsterdam. Her previous exhibition projects include Rembrandt and Prague Mannerism. After the forthcoming Netherlandish drawings exhibition, she will be working on Rubens. She is also co-editing a volume of the NKJ (Netherlands Yearbook of History of Art) on drawings for 2027.

Sarah W. Mallory is the Annette and Oscar de la Renta assistant curator of drawings and prints at The Morgan Library & Museum. She previously held positions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frick Collection, and Harvard Art Museums, among other institutions. She holds M.A. degrees from Parsons the New School for Design, The Institute of FIne Arts at New York University, and Harvard University, where she also completed her PhD. Her work focuses on seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, environmental histories, and colonial legacies. Her work has appeared in numerous edited volumes and journals, including Master Drawings. She also co-edited and contributed several essays to the volume Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade (Brill, 2025).

Elizabeth Rice Mattison is the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth. A specialist in the art of the early modern Low Countries, she focuses on the history of the reception, circulation, and materials of artworks,  especially of works on paper and sculpture. Her recent publications include the co-authored book Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, distributed by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2024 and articles in Simiolus, Netherlands Yearbook for Art History, Source, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal among other venues. She has recently organized exhibitions on prints of warfare, early modern sculpture, and pigment production in Europe.

Anita Viola Sganzerla has an MA and PhD from The Courtauld Institute of Art. She is curator of the Katrin Bellinger Collection, London. Recent exhibitions she has worked on include Connecting Worlds: Artists & Travel (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett, 2023) and Artists at Work (The Courtauld Gallery, 2018). A specialist in early modern Italian art, she has a particular research interest in the technical and conceptual complexity of works on paper, and the relationship between painting and the graphic arts. Amongst her current projects, Magic & Mess: The Artist’s Studio Revealed is scheduled to open at Leighton House in Fall 2026. She previously lectured at the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Courtauld Institute and the University of Kent, and was a print room assistant at the Courtauld Gallery.

Moderator Bios:

Alesa Boyle is an American who has worked in the London art market since 2017. CEO & Co-Founder of Mariette & Co., the parent company behind Trois Crayons, which she likewise Co-Founded, Alesa was previously Gallery Director and Head of Research at Stephen Ongpin Fine Art. She leads on the development of future editions of the TC Drawings Hub and their wider projects.

Gregory Rubinstein, Senior Director and Head of the Old Master Drawings Department Worldwide, joined Sotheby’s in 1990 after working at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and at the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle. As Worldwide Head of Old Master Drawings since 1993, he has overseen well over 100 specialist drawings sales in London, New York, Amsterdam, Paris and Milan. Among the most notable have been those of the Klaver Collection (Amsterdam, 1994), The Bodmer and Castle Howard Michelangelos (New York, 1998, and London 2001), the Koenigs Collection (New York, 2001), The Unicorno Collection (Amsterdam, 2004), the Jeffrey E. Horvitz Collection (New York, 2008), the Robert Lebel Collection (Paris, 2009) and the Hoesch Collection (London, 2010).

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This DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event was organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with Trois Crayons and in association with Master Drawings New York 2026. We are grateful to Sotheby’s New York for generously providing the venue for this event. 

Image: Maarten de Vos, Preparatory Drawing for Poverty Brings Forth Humility (detail), ca. 1585, pen and ink with brown wash on laid paper. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth; purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund, D.984.2.1.