Head of Northern European Paintings
National Gallery of Art
| Company | National Gallery of Art |
| Category | Operations & Admin |
| Location | Washington |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Director |
| Salary | 169k–197k |
| Posted | 13 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 11 Aug 2026 |
| Source | The employer's own careers page (company_site) |
Description
Apply by 11:59 p.m. ET on July 27, 2026
Duties
• Proposing, organizing, and coordinating or overseeing the development of major and minor exhibitions of Northern European Renaissance and Baroque paintings both from the Gallery's holdings and from other institutions and private collections.
• Managing over 370 Old Master paintings in the permanent collection.
• Performing and/or delegating scholarly and technical work to ensure thorough, up-to-date cataloguing, safe and orderly storage, and documentation of Northern European paintings belonging to the Gallery or proposed as gifts, purchases and loans.
• Ensuring timely and accurate maintenance of The Museum System (TMS) database entries for permanent collections and exhibition objects.
• Evaluating loan requests from other institutions to borrow paintings for special exhibitions; making recommendations for loan decisions and special loan conditions.
• Performing and overseeing advanced scholarly research on Northern European Renaissance and Baroque paintings in the collection and on prospective acquisitions, or in the areas of special expertise, and for inclusion or examination in exhibitions, scholarly journals, Gallery publications, lectures, and symposia.