Angela Jager, The Mass Market for History Paintings in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Production, Distribution, Consumption. Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age

Anna Tummers

doi:10.51769/bmgn-lchr.11297

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Angela Jager, The Mass Market for History Paintings in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Production, Distribution, Consumption. Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age

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The British writer John Evelyn noted in his diary in 1641 that paintings were very common and cheap in the Netherlands, and that he was amazed by the amount of pictures he saw at the annual fair in Rotterdam (‘especially Landskips and Drolleries as they call these clounish representations’).[2]
It is all the more surprising that, until recently, the bulk of the pictures produced, marketed and sold in the Dutch seventeenth century has barely been subject to serious scholarly attention
Angela Jager’s book The Mass Market for History Paintings in SeventeenthCentury Amsterdam: Production, Distribution, Consumption is the first in-depth study of the lower segment of the seventeenth-century art market in the Northern Netherlands. It focuses on cheap history paintings and analyses the market for these pictures based on the inventories of three Amsterdam art dealers: Jan Fransz

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It is all the more surprising that, until recently, the bulk of the pictures produced, marketed and sold in the Dutch seventeenth century has barely been subject to serious scholarly attention. Angela Jager’s book The Mass Market for History Paintings in SeventeenthCentury Amsterdam: Production, Distribution, Consumption is the first in-depth study of the lower segment of the seventeenth-century art market in the Northern Netherlands.

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