Hyde Collection: Last Chance to See European Treasure

GLENS FALLS — The Hyde Collection has announced a rare opportunity to view a rare European treasure before it returns to Europe on Aug. 22. 

The Hyde Collection is exhibiting an oil sketch by the great 17th-century Flemish painter, Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641). Reportedly discovered in a barn in Kinderhook, New York, the old panel was acquired by Hudson, New York collector Albert B. Roberts. After years of private research that engaged Bender Grosvenor, host of Fake or Fortune, Mr. Roberts’ convictions were vindicated when art historian Rev. Dr. Susan Barnes published the panel as an authentic work by Anthony Van Dyck in the March 2021 edition of the eminent art history publication The Burlington Magazine. 

The panel is a preparatory sketch for the Flemish artist’s St. Jerome that is now at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 

During its final month in upstate New York, the panel hangs in the company of the region’s finest collection of contemporaneous works at The Hyde Collection. Anthony Van Dyck’s Study for St. Jerome will be on view as part of The Hyde Collection’s exhibition Finding Van Dyck until Aug. 22. The Hyde Collection, located in Glens Falls, is open Thursday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information and reservations, visit www.Hydecollection.org.