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This collection of essays presents a status quaestionis concerning the dissemination of Flemish and Dutch art during the period 1500-1800, and highlights the role art auctions and dealers have played in this process. Auctions emerged as the primary channel for art sales at the end of the seventeenth century in the Low Countries and started a trent whereby countless local art collections were broken up and sold to the highest bidder. Especially (old master) paintings exchanged hands in great numbers at these public sales, and the finest pieces frequently ended up in foreign holdings. The activities of the professional art dealer form the focus of several essays. These intermediaries played an instrumental role in the commercialization and expansion of the art trade in early modern Europe. They had a profound impact on the history of collecting as they mediated and even influenced taste. Naturally, the role of art dealers changed over time. Therefore, the historians, art historians and economists who contributed to this volume have approached this phenomenon in an interdisciplinary fashion in order to properly understand how art markets functioned. In doing so, these essays explore the various ways in which art dealers helped shape markets for art, and how they facilitated the increasing volume of exports of Netherlandish art from the sixteenth century onwards.

Art auctions --- Art dealers --- Art --- History --- Collectors and collecting --- art market --- auctions --- Marchands d'oeuvres d'art --- Vente aux enchères --- Collectionneurs et collections --- 7.075 Kunsthandel. Kunstbemiddeling. Activiteiten van promotors; managers; producers --- Kunsthandel. Kunstbemiddeling. Activiteiten van promotors; managers; producers --- Vente aux enchères --- Histoire --- 7.075 --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Dealers (Retail trade) --- Auctions --- Collectors and collecting&delete& --- History of the Low Countries --- anno 1500-1799 --- History. --- Netherlands --- Kunst --- Geschiedenis van de Nederlanden --- veilingen --- kunstmarkt --- Art, Primitive --- Art auctions - Netherlands - History --- Art dealers - Netherlands - History --- Art - Collectors and collecting - Netherlands - History --- auctions [sales events] --- Nederlandse school --- Vlaamse school