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Painters’ Playbooks in the Art Market of Early Modern Amsterdam book cover

1st Edition

Painters’ Playbooks in the Art Market of Early Modern Amsterdam

By Weixuan Li Copyright 2026
372 Pages
by Routledge

The art market in seventeenth-century Amsterdam emerged as a competitive, multi-layered arena where artists of all kinds vied for a diverse and expanding clientele. How did this complex market function? And how did individual painters navigate this intricate system, making artistic and business decisions that fuelled the remarkable flourishing of Dutch art?  Painters’ Playbooks  explores these... Read more

Acknowledgements, List of Figures, Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Painters at Home Chapter 3: 1585-1610 Chapter 4: 1610-1630 Chapter 5: 1630-1650 Chapter 6: 1650-1670 Chapter 7: 1670–1700 Conclusion The early modern art market as a socio-spatial phenomenon, Appendix I: Data and sources Appendix II: Deep mapping methodology, Appendix III: Spatial arrangement of art dealers’ homes, Cumulative Bibliography, Index.

Biography

Weixuan Li is an art historian and digital humanist who explores seventeenth-century Dutch art, the art market and its global reach through digital methods. She has published on domestic art display, workshop practices, and painting production in the Dutch Republic, and is now examining artistic exchange between the Netherlands and Asia. 

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