Charlotte Rulkens

Charlotte Rulkens is a Dutch art historian, researcher, and curator specializing in seventeenth-century Dutch art, particularly the work of Rembrandt and his painting techniques, and sixteenth-century Flemish still life painting.

Career

She studied at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, and thereafter, held curatorial positions at the Frick Collection and the Mauritshuis. Rulkens is noted for her extensive curatorial work at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, where she curated several notable exhibitions.
She is a research associate at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, and has been a member of the advisory board of the Rembrandt House Museum, since 2023.
During her time at the Mauritshuis she played a key role in the renewal of the Prince [William V Gallery], and has since, been actively involved in initiatives to engage young professionals in museum governance and decision-making processes in the Netherlands.

Rembrandt en het Mauritshuis. Exhibition catalog, Mauritshus The Hague, Waanders, Zwolle 2019, ISBN 9789462622135.
with Quentin Buvelot, Yvonne Bleyerveld, Milou Goverde, Zoran Kwak, Anne Lenders, Fred G. Meijer: Slow Food. Dutch and Flemish Meal Still Lifes, 1600-1640. Exhibition catalog, Mauritshuis, The Hague/Waanders, Zwolle 2017, ISBN 978-94-6262-117-6.
with Quentin Buvelot and Desmond Shawe-Taylor: Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer. Exhibition catalog, Mauritshuis The Hague, Queen's Gallery Buckingham Palace London and Queen's Gallery Palace of Holyroodhouse Edinburgh, Royal Collection Trust, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-909741-19-5.