Private Collectors in Brussels, Antwerp, and Ghent, Ca. 1780-1914: Between Public Relevance and Personal Pleasure

by Ulrike Muller

In the first half of the nineteenth century, Belgium was repeatedly praised as a country of collectors and amateurs, and private art and antique collectors were important and highly visible actors in urban cultural life. At a time when the public museum was still a relatively recent innovation, private collections were quite easily accessible for local and international visitors of the same social rank as the collectors. By the beginning of the twentieth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503606199
• ISBN13: 9782503606194
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.