A Strange Business. Making art and money in nineteenth century Britain

Notes:

'Explores how art in the nineteenth century was made and paid for, and how it evolved in the face of fluctuating money supply, the turns of fashion, and the new demands of a growing middle class prominent among whom were the artists themselves. An endless subject such as this remains synoptic and laced with story and metaphor. It looks at networks, friendships and enmities, at debt, disasters and loyalties ...' Largely organised by role of the various actors - artists, patrons, dealers - within a context that includes, inter alia, commercial production of paints / pigments, transport developments, etc