Willemijn Fock

Cornelia Wilhelmina "Willemijn" Fock was a Dutch art historian. She was professor of the history of applied arts at Leiden University.

Career

Fock obtained her doctorate at Leiden University in 1975 with a dissertation on the goldsmith Jacques Bylivelt at the court of Florence. In 1982, she became a professor of the history of applied arts at the same university. She was mainly concerned with the history of interior decoration and furniture, tapestries and goldsmithing. She wrote books about residential culture and Rapenburg in Leiden. Fock retired in 2007. In 2019, she was awarded an honorary membership of the Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici.
Fock died on 3 June 2021.