The art world in Britain 1660 to 1735

The art world in Britain 1660 to 1735 publishes primary sources and research tools for the study of the arts in late 17th and early 18th century Britain. Launched in 2011 this long-term project will create a large body of transcribed sources that will underpin a biographical dictionary, a topographical index, a calendar of art sales and a database of transactions. [more...]

15 March 2013: A large group of late 17th cent. financial papers, correspondence and diaries are published, including accounts of the Earls of Salisbury and Bedford, and four of Charles Beale's notebooks. [more...]

14 Dec 2012: The papers of one of the great early 18th century art collectors, the 10th Earl of Derby, provide important new detail about the London art world of the 1720s. Also newly published are 18 sale catalogues. [more...]

28 Sept 2012: The art sales listing is now complete up to 1699. Newly published catalogues incl sales of Herman Verelst (1702), 3rd Earl of Leicester (1703) and Alexander Browne (1706). [more...]

31 July 2012: We publish significant new data on the late 17th century art market, including records of 300 payments by the Earls of Leicester and Dorset, and a translation of the London diary of Constantijn Huygens, 1688-96. [more...]

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