Development of the Art Market in England

'a highly original, deeply researched work of scholarship' Business History Review 'a skillful blend of primary and secondary source material as well as some significant quantitative data' EH.net 'it is likely that art historians, cultural historians, and economists, as well as others, will find this volume extremely useful in increasing understanding of the dealer-centered market - especially during the Victorian era - and how it influenced artists' decisions about what to paint for consumers.' Journal of British Studies 'Bayer and Page's text contributes to the scholarship in art history and financial history, and could be consulted by researchers working on an array of related subjects, from British socio-economic history to marketing strategies over time.' Art Libraries Journal 'Bayer and Page's attention to the variety of agents that composed the market system - artist, dealer, art writer, auctioneer, and patron - and the dialectical relations that shaped the system is a worthy goal that they largely achieve' Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 'makes fruitful headway into an area of enquiry which require further scholarship, both at the macro and the micro level.' Victorian Studies

• Introduction; Chapter 1 The Early Stages: From the Netherlands to Great Britain; Chapter 2 The Commoditization of Theories of Art; Chapter 3 The Painter as Homo Economicus; Chapter 4 Critics and Auctions; Chapter 5 The Evolution of Picture-Dealing; Chapter 6 The Victorian Era; Chapter 7 ‘Working the Oracle’: The Tools of the Trade; Chapter 8 The Formation of a Nexus: A Story of Christie’s; Chapter 9 Commoditization and the Artist as Producer: Product Differentiation and the Domestication of Pictures; Chapter 10 The End of the ‘Golden Age’; Chapter 11 Postscript: A Perpetual Innovative Whirl;