Auction houses [ Trade ]
… evolved from an early modern market based on reputation and personal ties to commerce liaised by middlemen, the auction house connected collectors of varied social backgrounds, contracting on their behalf an array of services (frame-makers, … internationally, and becoming a hub of connoisseurial debate. Places > Trade Keywords Art Audience Collecting Commerce Coffeehouses Exhibitions Auction sales were imported from seventeenth-century Holland, but rapidly became a feature of … of the port’s Prize-Office and the Common Crier’s office and started taking place in key centres of sociability – the coffeehouses. 4 In England and Ireland, this was a transgression of sorts, as public sales of goods were often …
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