Georges Hulin de Loo

He was educated in his home city of Ghent where he attended high school and university, earning a Ph.D from the Faculty of Arts in 1883, and a degree in law three years later.

[1] After visiting the 1902 Bruges exhibition of Netherlandish art (Exposition de tableaux flamands des XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles) he published an independent critical catalogue with Alfons Siffer, highlighting the large number of mistakes in the official catalogue which had used attributions and descriptions from the owners.

[1] Hulin became active in the art community, sat on committees and associations, and was a consulting editor to The Burlington Magazine.

[1] He continued to write, publishing a biography of Rogier van der Weyden in 1938.

[1] Along with Max Friedländer, who also visited the 1902 Bruges exhibition and wrote a review, Hulin became a leading scholar in the field of Netherlandish art.