Art Markets, Agents and Collectors

List of plates List of figures Series editor’s introduction Acknowledgements Introduction: Baetens, Susan Bracken and Adriana Turpin Part I: Agents in the market, 1550–1720 I Introduction: Agents in the art market, 1550–1720 Sandra van Ginhoven 1 Hans Albrecht von Sprinzenstein: An Austrian art agent in the service of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol Adriana Concin 2 Marco Boschini and the artists of his time Linda Borean 3 International art dealers, local agents and their clients in seventeenth-century Habsburg Inner Austria Tina Košak 4 James Thornhill as an agent-collector in early-eighteenth-century Paris Tamsin Lee-Woolfe Part II Agents in the long eighteenth century II Introduction: Hidden figures – agents in the long eighteenth century Bénédicte Miyamoto 5 Scottish agents in Rome in the eighteenth century: The case of Peter Grant Maria Celeste Cola 6 ‘An oracle for collectors’: Philipp von Stosch and collecting and dealing in art and antiquities in early-eighteenth-century Rome and Florence Ulf R. Hansson 7 Shaping the taste of British diplomats in eighteenth-century Venice Laura-Maria Popoviciu 8 Establishing honest trading relationships: Academic painters in the art market of eighteenth-century France Christine Godfroy-Gallardo 9 The German art market in the eighteenth century Renata Schellenberg 10 Playing the market: Lord Yarmouth, the Prince Regent and the role of the royal agent 1806–19 Rebecca Lyons Part III The agent in the modern European art market, 1820–1950 III Introduction: The art market in Europe, 1820–1950 Anne Helmreich 11 Edward Solly, Felice Cartoni and their purchases of paintings: A ‘milord’ and his ‘commissioner’ anticipating a transnational network of dealers c. 1820 Robert Skwirblies 12 ‘To see once again the glorious picture by Moretto before it is forever lost for Rome’: How an artist’s position in the canon of taste was enhanced in the nineteenth century Corina Meyer 13 ‘It is not my fault if in all the private collections, the Dutch paintings surpass all’: Thoré-Bürger’s promotion of Dutch art in the Parisian art market of the 1860s Frances Suzman Jowell 14 The Beurdeleys: A dynasty of curiosity dealers and their networks Camille Mestdagh 15 Collaboration and resistance: The National Gallery, London, and the Italian art market at the end of the nineteenth century Elena J. Greer 16 ‘I shall set at once about the work’: Some agents in China Nick Pearce 17 Promoting themselves: Agents and strategies in early Surrealism’s art market Alice Ensabella Part IV Agents in the market for American collectors IV Introduction: Collecting alliances in the United States during the long nineteenth century Inge Reist 18 Can a leopard change its spots? René Gimpel, art dealer Diana J. Kostyrko 19 Samuel P. Avery’s early career: The emergence of a successful art agent, art dealer and art expert Madeleine Fidell-Beaufort 20 Dealing with allegories of the four parts of the world: James Hazen Hyde (1876–1959) and his network Louise Arizzoli 21 Laying the foundation: Harold Woodbury Parsons and the making of an American museum MacKenzie Mallon 22 Convergences: Art history, museums and scholar-agent Martin Birnbaum’s transatlantic art for the public Julie Codell Bibliography Author biographies Index