Wayne E. Franits

Wayne E. Franits is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Syracuse University, New York. In recent years, Franits has published books on the seventeenth-century Dutch painters, Johannes Vermeer (2015) and Godefridus Schalcken (2018) as well as The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century (2016). He is currently pursuing research on late seventeenth-century art collections in English country houses, on Theodoor Rombouts’s portrayal of himself in his paintings, and on the art of Rembrandt during his early career in relation to contemporary genre painting.