# The Sale of the Late King's Goods

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- Authors: [Jerry Brotton](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerry-brotton)
- Publisher: Pan
- ISBN: 978-15-0986-527-7
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2017-12-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Brotton has taken on a cracking good story, confidently snaking through the complicated politics of seventeenth-century European art-dealership, from Venice and the Low Countries to the Escorial and back into the side-streets of turbulent London and the thousand-odd rooms of Whitehall Palace. He beds this vast mass of convoluted activity with its great cast of characters from de Critz to Van Dyck – its rivalries, frauds, enthusiasms, bankruptcies, brinkmanship and U-turns – deeply into the political, social and artistic context of the time. This is no pillow book: that Brotton maintains his authorial grip on both the grand sweep and the elaborate detail while controlling the drive of his multi-layered narrative is a superb achievement