Drs. Emilie den Tonkelaar (b. 1984) joined the team in 2009.
She studied art history at Leiden University and completed her research masters there in 2008 with a thesis on seventeenth-century artist Willem van Swanenburgh. She completed internships at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Kunsthandel Laurentius in Middelburg and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. In 2019 Emilie den Tonkelaar made world news headlines by discovering a famous oil sketch by Peter Paul Rubens. She is one of the paintings experts on Tussen Kunst en Kitsch TV show.