Adriaan E. Waiboer

Adriaan E. Waiboer graduated from the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden in 1997 and subsequently completed a Masters degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where his thesis Equality, ordering & rigidity: the hierarchy of the genres in Dutch seventeenth-century art theory was awarded a distinction. At the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Waiboer received a Masters degree in 1998 and a Ph.D. in 2004, having successfully defended his dissertation Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667): life and work. During his doctoral research, he received a number of fellowships, among them a Theodore Rousseau Fellowship from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, an American Friends of the Mauritshuis Fellowship, and a Mary Davis Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington.