This collection of fourteen essays by distinguished art and cultural historians examine points of similarity and difference in British and American art collecti

This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes i

Art Markets, Agents and Collectors brings together a wide variety of case studies, based on letters and detailed archival research, which nuance the history of

Traditional postcolonial scholarship on art and imperialism emphasises tensions between colonising cores and subjugated peripheries. The ties between London and

In Spaces of Connoisseurship, Alison Clarke explores the ‘who’, ‘where’ and ‘how’ of judging Old Master paintings in the nineteenth-century British