Article: The art of making a deal: an exhibition and a new book reveal in unprecedented detail how Rembrandt and other Dutch artists were linked to the art trade.(EXHIBITIONS)

Hendrick Uylenburgh and his son Gerrit were major figures in the art trade in Amsterdam when, during the middle of the 17th century, it was the most prosperous city in Europe. Joachim von Sandrart, who lived there in 1637-42 refers to Hendrick (c. 1584/89-1661) as 'the famous art dealer'; Arnold Houbraken, in De Groote Schouburgh, published in the early 18th century, calls him 'the greatest dealer in Italian paintings that there was in Holland', who 'kept various young painters at work copying these pieces'; and in his Notizie, published between 1681 and 1728, Filippo Baldinucci refers to the years spent in Amsterdam by the Danish painter Eberhard Keil between 1644 and ...

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