Over the course of the fifteenth century easel paintings edged out tapestries, frescoes and wood inlay pictures on the walls of private dwellings. Millions of s

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Showcasing diverse methodologies, this volume illuminates London's central role in the development of a European art market at the turn of the nineteenth centur

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