Gathered in honor of John Michael Montias (1928–2005), the foremost scholar on Johannes Vermeer and a pioneer in the study of the socioeconomic dimensions of art, the essays in In His Milieu are an essential contribution to the study of the social functions of making, collecting, displaying, and donating art. The nearly forty essays here by—all internationally recognized experts in the fields of art history and the economics of art—are especially revealing about the Renaissance and Baroque eras and present new material on such artists as Rembrandt, Van Eyck, Rubens, and da Vinci.

Acknowledgments
In Memoriam John Michael Montias (1928-2005)
Four Remembrances
     EGBERT HAVERKAMP-BEGEMANN
     OTTO NAUMANN
     HERBERT E. SCARF
     ALEXANDER M. SCHENKER
Art-Historical Publications by John Michael Montias
Two Forms of Knowledge: Invention and Production in Thomas de Keyser's
Portrait of a Young Silversmith, Sijmon Valckenaer
     Ann Jensen Adams
The Case of Han van Meegeren's Fake Vermeer Supper at Emmaus Reconsidered
     Albert Blankert
Prices of Northern Netherlandish Paintings in the Seventeenth Century
     Marion Boers-Goosens
The Mysterious Landscape Painter Govert Janszn called Mijnheer (1577-c. 1619)
     Marten Jan Bok and Sebastien Dudok van Heel
Jacob Ochtervelt's Rotterdam Patron
     Alan Chong
Did Rembrandt Travel to England?
     Paul Crenshaw
The Antwerp-Mechelen Production and Export Complex
     Neil de Marchi and Hans J. van Miegroet
Thoughts on the Market for Rembrandt's Portrait etchings
     Stephanie S. Dickey
If the Show Fits: Courtship, Sex, and Society in an Unusual Painting by Gonzales Coques
     Wayne Franits
A Sophonisba by Pieter Lastman?
     Amy Golahny
Poelenburch's Garden: Art, Flowers, Networks, and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Holland
     Anne Goldgar
Tournai's Renaissance Jubé: Art as Instrument of Empowerment
     Ethan Matt Kavaler
Vermeer and His Thematic Use of Perspective
     Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato
The Fact in the Landscape: A Puzzling Print by Matthäus Merian the Elder
     Susan Donahue Kuretsky
Murant and His Milieu: A Biography of Emanuel Murant, the "Rustic Forerunner" of Jan van der Heyden
     Walter Liedtke with archival research by Piet Bakker
Rubens as a Teacher: "He may teach his art to his students and others to his liking"
     Anne-Marie Logan
Abraham van Dijck (1635?-1680), a Dordrecht Painter in the Shadow of Rembrandt
     John Loughman
Joachim/Peter Wtewael, Father/Son, Master/Pupil
     Anne W. Lowenthal
At Home with the Ten Commandments: Domestic Text Paintings in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
     Mia M. Mochizuki
The Transfer and Reception of Dutch Art in the Baltic Area during the Eighteenth Century: The Case of the Hamburg Dealer Gerhard Morrell
     Michael North
Sleeping Caps, City Views, and State Funerals: Privileges for Prints in the Dutch Republic, 1593-1650
     Nadine M. Orenstein
Piety and Splendor: The Art Collection of Antwerp Burgomaster Adriaan Hertsen
     Natasja Peeters and Maximiliaan P.J. Martens
Pictorial Archives: "Jordaans" in Delft
     Michiel C. Plomp
Visiting Vermeer: Performing Civility
     Herman RoodenburgThe Montias Database: Inventories of Amsterdam Art Collections
     Louisa Wood Ruby
Some Questions Concerning Inventory Research
     Gary Schwartz
Marketing the Dutch Past: The Lucas van Leyden Revival around 1600
     Larry Silver
"Les regards dards": Werner van den Valckert's Venus and Cupid
     Eric Jan Sluijter
The School of Cornelis van Poelenburch
     Nicolette C. Sluijter-Seijffert
From Art to Politics: The Paintings of Jean de Warignies, Lord of Blainville
(c. 1581-1628)
     Mickaël Szanto
Van Eyck Out of Focus
     Christopher S. Wood
Landscape’s Pleasures: The Gifted Drawing in the Seventeenth Century
     Michael Zell