CHAPTER 2. How Auction Sales of the Orphan Chamber Were Conducted

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. References to Archival Sources 8
5. Monetary Equivalents 8
6. Notice 8
7. Part I. The Auctions
8. Introduction 11
9. CHAPTER 1. Orphan Chamber Auctions in Amsterdam 15
10. CHAPTER 2. How Auction Sales of the Orphan Chamber Were Conducted 20
11. CHAPTER 3. Extant Records of Auction Sales in Chronological Perspective 27
12. CHAPTER 4. Aggregate Statistics of Sales and the Owners of Goods Sold 33
13. CHAPTER 5. The Buyers at Auction Sales 41
14. CHAPTER 6. The Wealth of Buyers 52
15. CHAPTER 7. Clusters of Private Buyers 57
16. CHAPTER 8. Remonstrants and Counter- Remonstrants 77
17. CHAPTER 9. What Did They Buy and at What Prices? 87
18. CHAPTER 10. Attributions 93
19. CHAPTER 11. Echoes 100
20. CHAPTER 12. Concluding Words on Auctions 108
21. Part II. Profiles of Selected Buyers
22. Introduction 113
23. CHAPTER 13. Art Dealers I: Artists and Merchants in the Trade 114
24. CHAPTER 14. Art Dealers II: Johannes de Renialme 130
25. CHAPTER 15. Art Dealers III: The Story of a Merchant Who Thought He Could Sell Paintings to a King 144
26. CHAPTER 16. Art Collectors and Painters I: Rubens’s Promise to Hans Thijsz 153
27. CHAPTER 17. Art Collectors and Painters II: Jacob Swalmius and Rembrandt 164
28. CHAPTER 18. Art Collectors and Painters III: Marten van den Broeck and Rembrandt’s Losses at Sea 180
29. CHAPTER 19. Art Collectors and Painters IV: Jan van Maerlen and His Extended Family 188
30. CHAPTER 20. Art Collectors and Painters V: Jean le Bleu, François Venant and Rembrandt’s “Feast of Belshazzar” 204
31. CHAPTER 21. A Collector with Connections to Major Cultural Figures: Robbert van der Hoeve and the “Muiden Circle” 209
32. CHAPTER 22. What Santa Claus Brought to the Youth of Amsterdam 220
33. CHAPTER 23. When Sellers and Buyers Were Related: Elbert and Cornelis Symonsz. Pool, Jeltge Claes, and Pieter Claesz. Codde 226
34. CHAPTER 24. A Collector Who Held On to His Purchase for Over Fifty Years 234
35. CHAPTER 25. An Afterword on Mentalités 243
36. Bibliography 247
37. Published Sources 249
38. Notes 257
39. Index 311