Lara Yeager-Crasselt (born 1983) is an American art historian and curator of seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art. She studied art history Vassar College and the University of Maryland, where she received her PhD.
Yeager-Crasselt was supervised during her dissertation at the University of Maryland her by the American art historian and curator Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., who was the Curator of Northern European at the National Gallery of Art, from 1975 to 2018, and succeeded by the American curator and art historian Betsy Wieseman.
She is specialized in the work of the Flemish painter Michael Sweerts, on whom she wrote her dissertation, which was published in 2015.
From 2017 to 2022 she was curator of the Leiden Collection; a private art collection, portions of which were exhibited at the Louvre and the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
Before her appointment at the Leiden Collection she was interim curator at the Clark Art Institute. In 2022, she became the Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
In 2025 she was appointed curator of the Aso O. Tavitian Collection, at the Clark Art Institute, returning to the institution.
Yeager-Crasselt has extensively published on seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, the dynamics of artistic exchange between the Low Countries and Italy, and issues of artistic mobility, identity, and collaboration: