Caroline Alexandra van Eck FBA (born 22 July 1959) is a Dutch art historian and academic, specialising in the art and architecture of the early modern period.
She was the 2017 Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford.
[1][2][3][4][5] In March 2014, van Eck was awarded the 2013 Descartes-Huygens Prize by the French Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
[6] In December 2014, van Eck was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre National du Mérite by the President of France.
[8] In 2020 van Eck was elected a fellow of the Academia Europaea[9] and of the British Academy.