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Author(s): John Michael Montias
ISBN(s): 9789053565919, 9053565914
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 3.62 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 9053565914

ISBN 13: 9789053565919

Author: John Michael Montias

This book exploits a trove of original documents that have survived on the auctions organized by the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam in the first half of the 17th century. For the first time, the names of some 2000 buyers of works of art at auction in the 29 extant notebooks of the Chamber have been systematically analyzed. On the basis of archival research, data have been assembled on the occupation of these buyers (most of whom were merchants), their origin (Southern Netherlands, Holland, and other), their religion, their year of birth, their date of marriage, the taxes they paid and other indicators of their wealth. Buyers were found to cluster in groups, not only by extended family but by occupation, religion (Remonstrants, Counter-Remonstrants) and avocation (amateurs of tulips and of porcelain, members of Chambers of Rhetoricians, and so forth). The subjects of the works of art they bought and the artists to which they were attributed (only the most important were attributed) are also analyzed. In the second part of the book on “Selected Buyers”, three chapters are devoted to art dealers who bought at auction and four to buyers who had special connections with artists, including principally Rembrandt. To forge a link between the cultural milieu of Amsterdam in this period and the buying public, two chapters are given over to buyers who were either poets themselves or were connected with contemporary poets. As a whole, the book offers a penetrating insight into the culture of the Amsterdam elite in the 17th century.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Orphan Chamber Auctions in Amsterdam

Chapter 2: How Auction Sales of the Orphan Chamber Were Conducted

Chapter 3: Extant Records of Auction Sales in Chronological Perspective

Chapter 4: Aggregate Statistics of Sales and the Owners of Goods Sold

Chapter 5: The Buyers at Auction Sales

Chapter 6: The Wealth of Buyers

Chapter 7: Clusters of Private Buyers

Chapter 8: Remonstrants and Counter-Remonstrants

Chapter 9: What Did They Buy and at What Prices?

Chapter 10: Attributions

Chapter 11: Echoes

Chapter 12: Concluding Words on Auctions

Chapter 13: Art Dealers I: Artists and Merchants in the Trade

Chapter 14: Art Dealers II: Johannes de Renialme

Chapter 15: Art Dealers III: The Story of a Merchant Who Thought He Could Sell Paintings to a King

Chapter 16: Art Collectors and Painters I: Rubens’s Promise to Hans Thijsz.

Chapter 17: Art Collectors and Painters II: Jacob Swalmius and Rembrandt

Chapter 18: Art Collectors and Painters III: Marten van den Broeck and Rembrandt’s Losses at Sea

Chapter 19: Art Collectors and Painters IV: Jan van Maerlen and His Extended Family

Chapter 20: Art Collectors and Painters V: Jean le Bleu, François Venant and Rembrandt’s Feast of Belshazzar

Chapter 21: A Collector with Connections to Major Cultural Figures: Robbert van der Hoeve and the “Muiden Circle”

Chapter 22: What Santa Claus Brought to the Youth of Amsterdam

Chapter 23: When Sellers and Buyers Were Related: Elbert and Cornelis Symonsz. Pool, Jeltge Claes, and Pieter Claesz. Codde

Chapter 24: A Collector Who Held On to His Purchase for Over Fifty Years

Chapter 25: An Afterword on Mentalités

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