Elsabeth Alicia Dikkes is a Dutch art historian and researcher specializing in European art and material culture from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century, with a particular focus on European painting. Trained in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany, she brings extensive international experience in museums, archives, and research institutes, working across object-based study, provenance research, and historical documentation. Her scholarship is marked by close attention to artistic mobility, workshop practices, and the broader networks that shaped European artistic production—perspectives that inform her contributions to Gallery 19C’s cataloguing projects and artist dossiers.
Elsabeth holds an M.A. in Art History from Leiden University in the Netherlands, where she specialized in early modern European painting, archival methodology, and the history of collecting. She has collaborated on research and cataloguing initiatives with institutions including Rosenborg Castle and Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen; the Huygens Institute for History and the Netherlands Institute for Art History in The Hague; and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her publications have appeared in Simiolus: The Journal for the History of Art, and in edited volumes devoted to European art, scientific culture, and the movement of objects and ideas.
At Gallery 19C, Elsabeth authors scholarly yet accessible texts on nineteenth-century artists. She is currently completing her PhD in Art History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, where her dissertation focuses on artistic mobility, workshop structures, and cross-regional networks among Antwerp’s sixteenth- and seventeenth-century goldsmith-painter families. Her research foregrounds the transmission of skills, materials, and visual strategies across generations—frameworks that underpin her interest in the nineteenth century’s renewed engagement with historical techniques, transnational artistic exchange, and the provenance histories of collections.