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Adriana Turpin: Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting Strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550-1950 (Contextualizing Art Markets) [2022] paperb Condition:New Butler's novel may be unmatched'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 the art market and the role of the collector within it. Using diaries, account books and other archival sources, the chapters in this volume show how agents set up networks and acquired works of art, often developing the taste and knowledge of the collectors for whom they were working. They are