Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 6
4. I. Charles I and The Whitehall Group 10
5. II. The Sale of the Century 59
6. III. "The Greatest Amateur of Paintings among the Princes of the World" 95
7. IV. "Amator artis pictoriae:" Archduke Leopold William and Picture Collecting in Flanders 147
8. V. Reasons of State 185
9. VI. The Prestige of Painting 227
10. Postscript: Where Have All the Masterpieces Gone? An Essay on the Market for Old Pictures, 1700–1995 249
11. Notes 254
12. Bibliography 257
13. Index 261
14. Photographic Acknowledgments 264