Janet Tyson is a writer, lecturer and researcher in histories of visual and material culture. Her interest in Netherlandish art spans the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, and encompasses works by Flemish and Dutch painters, printers and sculptors. She devoted her Masters thesis to domestic interiors in Rogier van der Weyden’s oeuvre, and has lectured on genre works by Pieter de Hooch, Johannes Vermeer and Pieter Saenredam, among other artists.