Alyssa Hughes-Sullivan

Alyssa Hughes-Sullivan earned a PhD Candidate working with Dr. Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. Her dissertation deals with the images of elderly people that the 17th century Dutch artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Jan Lievens made during their formative years in Leiden. Her research interests include Netherlandish art, Rembrandt and his early circle, and the social history of Leiden.

Alyssa received a BA in Art History and German from the University of Mary Washington in 2015. She later graduated from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts with her Master's degree in Art History in 2018. Her MA thesis considered images of elderly women by Rembrandt's pupil, Nicolaes Maes. She has worked as an intern for the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Arts (2012) and for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2015-16). She also worked at The Leiden Collection in New York (2017-18). Alyssa was also the Collections Manager for the Ridderhof Martin Galleries at the University of Mary Washington (2021–2022). This academic year (2023–2024) Alyssa will work as a University of Maryland Museum Fellow at the Baltimore Museum of Art alongside Dr. Lara Yeager-Crasselt (UMD alumna, PhD in Art History, 2013), the newly appointed Curator and Department Head of European Painting and Sculpture.