Auction houses [ Trade ]
… scenes, auctioneers offered services that professionalized the art market (as brokers, appraisers and upholsterers). As commerce 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 … city and internationally, and becoming a hub of connoisseurial debate. Places > Trade Mots-clés Art Audience Collecting Commerce Coffeehouses Exhibitions Auction sales were imported from seventeenth-century Holland, but rapidly became a …
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