Auctions, agents and dealers: the mechanisms of the art market, 1660-1830.

Oxford : Beazley Archive : Archaeopress ; London : Wallace Collection, 2007171 pages, illustrated. ISBN: 9781903767092. The Art trade and its urban context: England and the Netherlands compared, 1550-1750 by David Ormrod : The Auction Duty Act of 1777: the beginning of institutionalisation of auctions in Britain by Satomi Ohashi : The Almoneda: the second-hand art market in Spain by Mari-Tere Alvarez : The Market for Netherlandish paintings in Paris, 1750-1815 by Hans J. Van Miegroet : Le Tableau et son prix à Paris, 1760-80: English summary by Patrick Michel : The System governing appraised value in Ancien Régime France by Alden R. Gordon : The Marquis de Vassé against the art dealer Jacques Lenglier: a case study of an eighteenth-century Parisian auction by François Marandet : Pierre Sirois (1665-1726): le premier marchand de Watteau: English summary by Guillaume Glorieux : The Purchase of the past: Dr. Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755) and the collecting of history by John Cherry : John Anderson and John Bouttats: picture dealers in eighteenth-century London by David Connell : Sir Godfrey Copley as patron and consumer. 1685-1705 by David Mitchell : The Rise and fall of a British connoisseur: the career of Michael Bryan (1757-1821), picture dealer extraordinaire by Julia Armstrong-Totten : In keeping with the truth: the German art market and its role in the development of connoisseurship in the eighteenth century by Thomas Ketelsen : Abraham Hume e Giovanni Maria Sasso: il mercato artistico tra Venezia e Londra nel settecento: English summary by Linda Borean. Text in English.