Europe Art Markets in Antwerp Amsterdam and London Sophia Wang Middlebury College Student Symposium Spring 2010 Then and Now What Constitutes an Art Market Work of art Seller Buyer ID: 211065
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The Splendor of Europe:Art Markets in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London
Sophia Wang
Middlebury College
Student Symposium
Spring 2010Slide2
Then and Now: What Constitutes an Art Market?
Work of art + Seller + Buyer
Middle Ages – Artist (craftsperson) + Patron (church)
Development and expansion of art market
Antwerp –> Amsterdam –> London
In this precise order (!)Slide3
Antwerp: A Cultural and Economic Interface from the 14th Century
Modern urban diamond, rich and layered past
Boom in the 14
th
century
Luxury goods market flourished
Imagine: a sixteenth-century ManhattanSlide4
Seeds of Market SownRising demand met by increasing numbers of artists
Increasing mass production
Concentration of labor
Decrease in prices
Increase in demandSlide5
Pand: the first open market
Specialized markets
Held in warehouses, commercial exchanges or courtyards
Our Lady’s Pand: art
pand
built by church (pictured below)Slide6
1640s: Decline of Antwerp
Seminal Treaty of
Münster
(pictured above)
The Scheldt closed; everyone takes off and goes
Make way for AmsterdamSlide7
Amsterdam: Cultural and Economic Interface of the 17th CenturyThe Dutch Golden Age: Intellectual and Financial Prosperity
A Republic in Monarchical Times
Artists, Dealers, Public
Top left: Rijksmuseum, housing a large collection of Dutch Golden Age art.
Bottom left: Keizersgracht canal.Slide8
Rembrandt:Artistic Genius, Financial Failure?
On the right: self-portrait (1661), oil on canvas.
On the left:
The Night Watch
(1642), oil on canvas.Slide9
Background as a Miller’s SonFortune’s Fool: A Poor Manager of Finances
The Dutch Art Market: Shark-infested Waters
Collecting Mania
Pictured above:
Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer
, (1653), oil on canvas.Slide10
London: The Late Bloomer
On the right:
Portrait of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel
(1629-30), by Peter Paul Rubens.
On the left:
Charles I, King of England, from Three Angles
(1646), oil on canvas, by Anthony van Dyck.
Despite the astonishing richness of
the collections assembled at the court of Charles I and the homes of certain courtiers, London art markets were relatively backwater before the 18
th
century.Slide11
Royal and Fabulously Rich Patrons: Taste for the AntiqueCharles I of England (1600-49): patron of the artsThomas Howard, 2
nd
Earl of Arundel (1585-1646): collector of marbles and antiquities
Death of the King: Death of Art?Slide12
Growth and Development of the London Art MarketDutch MigrationLegal Restrictions Loosened
The Auction: a “fashionable” sales mechanism
Goods Bartered
Budding Auction HousesSlide13
What Is an Art Market?Art cannot be defined …Can an art market be defined?
What does it encompass?