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Private View Day at the Royal Academy
Claudio, deceived by Don John,
accuses Hero
The Roses of Heliogabalus
Cimabue’s Celebrated Madonna Carried in
Procession through the Streets of Florence
The Fisherman and the Syren
The Reconciliation of the
Montagues and Capulets
Girl with a
Basket of Fruit
Chapter nine presents the different effects that this dealer-centered market had on paintings produced under such conditions. The changes that differentiate nineteenth-century British pictures from their eighteenth-century predecessors can be explained, in addition to the traditional social causes, by the appropriation of the art market by institutionalized dealers for the purpose of selling art products to primarily middle class consumers for domestic use.
The Last Sunday of Charles II