Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, c. 1860–1940

Silvia Davoli is Curator at Strawberry Hill House and Garden (The Horace Walpole Collection), UK and Research Associate at the University of Oxford, UK. Specialising in the history of collecting, connoisseurship and provenance, Silvia has published numerous articles internationally on Italian, French and English collecting. Tom Stammers was Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham; in September 2024 he became Reader in Cultural and Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK. A specialist in collecting, Tom has published widely on French, British and European cultural history in the long 19th century.

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Introduction: What Makes Jewish Dealers Jewish?, Tom Stammers (The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK) and Silvia Davoli (Strawberry Hill House and garden/Oxford University, UK)

1. Art Dealing in “the hands of Abraham’s posterity”: Jewish Art Dealers in Victorian London, Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz (Independent Scholar, UK)

2. Moisè Michelangelo Guggenheim (1837–1914) in Venice: Dealer, Manufacturer, Decorator, Collector and Philanthropist, Nicholas Penny (Former director of the National Gallery, UK)

3. Mannheim, Father and Son, in Paris (1817–1910): From German Jewish Immigrant to Leaders of the Art Market, Camille Mestdagh (Université Lumière Lyon2, France) and Léa Saint-Raymond (Sorbonne Université, France)

4. 'The Only Man in Europe’: Charles Davis, an Anglo-Jewish Dealer, and the Commercial Cousinhood, Diana Davis (Buckingham University, UK)

5. The Samuel Family as Dealers in East Asian Art and Curios, 1878–1926, William Clarence Smith (London School of Economics, UK)

6. Florine Ebstein Langweil: Jewish Networks in the East Asian Art Trade, Elizabeth Emery (Montclair University, USA)

7. Antisemitism and the Jewish Art Dealer: The Case of Siegfried Bing and Julius Meier-Graefe, Gabriel Weisberg (Minnesota University, USA)

8. Exterminating Cubism: Bochisme, L’Art Juif and the Vilification of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Fay Brauer (University of East London School of Art, UK)

9. Léonce Rosenberg’s Cubism: Jewish Mediterraneanism and the Question of Assimilation, Giovanni Casini (University of Turin, Italy)

10. Alfred Flechtheim and the Flechtheim Galleries, 1913–1933, Malcolm Gee (Northumbria University, UK)

11. A Parisian in London, and New York: Genesis of a Modern Art Dynasty, Gimpel Fils, Diana Kostyrko (Australia National University, Australia)

12. Conflicted Modernisms: Martin Birnbaum’s Transnational Exhibitions, 1910–26, Julie Codell (Arizona University, USA)

13. Rags to Riches: Becoming Leo Nardus, Esmee Quodbach (Independent scholar, USA)

14. The Mysterious Birtchansky Brothers: Moscow-Paris-The French Riviera, Shlomit Steinberg (Israel Museum, Israel)

Afterword, Why the Jews?, Charles Dellheim (Boston University, USA)

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