Lotte Kokkedee is a doctoral researcher within the European Research Council project ARTDETECT: A New Connoisseurship: Smart Ways to Detect Forgeries (ERC Consolidator Grant 101088056, 2024-2028). Her research focuses on forgeries and other forms of deceptive imitation in early modern painting. She investigates historical notions of forgery in the early modern period and conducts object-based studies of case examples, combining traditional art-historical methods with cutting-edge scientific techniques.
Lotte has published on topics including Frans Hals and Pieter van Laer, and she serves as Reviews Editor for Oud Holland, a peer-reviewed journal on Dutch and Flemish art. Previously, she worked as a curatorial research fellow at the Center for Netherlandish Art at the MFA Boston, as a junior curator at Museum Prinsenhof Delft, and as a curator-in-training at the Rijksmuseum.
She holds degrees in art history, history, and classical singing, having pursued her studies in The Hague, Leiden, Amsterdam, Florence, and Rome.