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

Speranza

Studies in the History of Collections

Volume III
Auctions, Agents and Dealers
The mechanisms of the Art Market 1660-1830

In recent years the Wallace Collection has begun to develop more actively its profile as a leading centre for the study of this history of collecting, especially, but not exclusively, in Britain and France during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This conference, which took place at the Wallace Collection on 12-13 December 2003, set out to examine aspects of seventeenth to early nineteenth-century collecting from the perspective of the art market, including the mechamisms devised to create clients and markets, the networkd set up by agents and dealers, and collectors' relationships with dealers and the market.