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The book measures 300 x 248 mm, and comprises 464 pages, printed to the highest standard on archival-quality Mohawk Superfine 118gsm paper. This edition is privately printed for the Roxburghe Club, which has agreed to make 250 copies available for sale at 250.00 plus postage and packing. The book, ISBN 978 1 901902 10 5, is available from Maggs Bros. Ltd. A Dynasty of Dealers: John Smith and Successors 1801-1924 is a study of the art market for Dutch and Flemish pictures in nineteenth-century London, based on 564 unpublished letters between the art dealer John Smith, his sons and their customers, and also on the Smith firm's business books, which are now located in the Victoria and Albert Museum. His customers included the Prince Regent (later George IV), the Duke of Wellington, Lords Bute, Lansdowne and Northwick, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Charles Bagot, Ralph Bernal and William Beckford, as well as members of the Baring, Hope and Rothschild banking families, and the firm dealt in works by such artists as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Rubens. For around seventy years John Smith's firm acted as a leading London dealer, and had curatorial responsibility for Lord Ellesmere's celebrated collection of pictures at Bridgewater House, St James's, a role that lasted for three generations, and a lesser role for Lord Ashburton's collection at Bath House, Piccadilly, which lasted as many. Smith was also the author of the pioneering Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters substantial volumes covering forty-one artists, published between 1829 and 1842.

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