Auction houses [ Trade ]
… 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 the British … most famous auction houses nestled comfortably in the networks of exclusive clubs, sought after entertainment venues and exhibitions rooms in Pall Mall and the West End . Charles Jenner in his Town Eclogues (1772) depicted the young lady of … sales continued to operate in winter, many fashionable art auctions coincided by the end of the century with the summer exhibitions of the Royal Academy and the fashionable season of London society. 10 10 . Pamela M. Fletcher and Anne …
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