Auctions, agents, and dealers
Subtitle: the mechanisms of the art market, 1660-1830
By: edited by Jeremy Warren and Adriana Turpin.
Contributors: Warren, Jeremy.; Turpin, Adriana.
Series: Studies in the history of collections -- v. 3
Publisher: Beazley Archive; Archaeopress; In association with the Wallace Collection; Wallace Collection
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; London
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781903767092
Subjects: Art -- Marketing -- Europe; Art dealers -- Europe; Art auctions -- Europe; Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe
Other titles: Mechanisms of the art market, 1660-1830
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

In English, with one essay in Italian.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction / Neil De Marchi; title: Section A. Auctions and economics. 1. The art trade and its urban context : England and the Netherlands compared, 1550-1750 /; title: David Ormrod -- 2. The  Auction Duty Act of 1777 : the beginning of institutionalisation of auctions in Britain / Satomi Ohashi -- 3.The Almoneda : the second-hand art market in Spain / Mari-Tere Alvarez -- 4.The market for Netherlandish paintings in Paris, 1750-1815 / Hans J. Van Miegroet -- Section B. The art market in Paris. Le tableau et son prix à Paris, 1760-80 : English summary / Patrick Michel -- 6.The system governing appraised value in Ancien Régime France / Alden R. Gordon -- 7. The Marquis de Vassé against the art dealer Jacques Lenglier : a case-study of an eighteenth-century Parisian auction / François Marandet -- 8. Pierre Sirois (1665-1726) : le premier marchand de Watteau : English summary / Guillaume Glorieux -- Section C. Dealers, agents, and collectors. 9. The purchase of the past : Dr. Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755) and the collecting of history / John Cherry -- 10. John Anderson and John Bouttats : picture dealers in eighteenth-century London /  David Connell -- 11. Sir Godfrey Copley as patron and consumer, 1685-1705 / David Mitchell -- 12. The rise and fall of a British connoisseur : the career of Michael Bryan (1757-1821), picture dealer extraordinaire / Julia Armstrong-Totten -- 13. "In keeping with the truth" : the German art market and its role in the development of connoisseurship in the eighteenth century / Thomas Ketelsen -- 14. Abraham Hume e Giovanni Maria Sasso : il mercato artistico tra Venezia e Londra nel settecento : English summary / Linda Borean -- About the authors.