Gary Schwartz is an art historian, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1940, who has been living in the Netherlands since 1965. His scholarly work is mainly on Dutch and Flemish art of the 17th century. The columns in the Schwartzlist are broader in scope. From September 1995 until April 2007, the items on the Schwartzlist were English-language versions of biweekly columns that were published in Dutch in the cultural supplements of the daily newspapers NRC Handelsblad and then in Het Financieele Dagblad.
