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John Oliver Hand

John Oliver Hand is the former curator of northern Renaissance paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. In addition to numerous articles and reviews in the field of northern Renaissance art, Hand has written two systematic catalogs for the Gallery’s collections: Early Netherlandish Painting (1986, with Martha Wolff) and German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries (1993). Other publications include Joos van Cleve: The Complete Paintings (2004), National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection (2004), and Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe (2017, with Greta Koppel).