More art catalogues and price lists available for download on archive.org.
Reference works mentioned by the V&A
Le trésor de la curiosité, tiré des catalogues de ventes de tableaux,
etc … avec diverses notes & notices historiques &
biographiques.
Les ventes de tableaux, dessins estampes et objets d’art aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (1611-1800). Essai de bibliographie.
Dictionnaire des ventes d’art faites en France et a l’étranger pendant les XVIIIe et XIXe siècles.
Treasures of Art in Great Britain: being an account of the chief collections of paintings, sculptures, illuminated mss. …
Galleries and cabinets of art in Great Britain: being an account of more than forty collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures …
Catalogues by Algernon Graves
The Royal Academy of Arts; a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904
The Society of artists of Great Britain, 1760-1791; the Free society of artists, 1761-1783 ; a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from the foundation of the societies to 1791
A dictionary of artists who have exhibited works in the principal London
Other Catalogues, some from Wikipedia’s article on the history of art auction sales
Painters and Their Works: A Dictionary of Great Artists who are Not Now Alive
Memorials of Christie’s; a record of art sales from 1766 to 1896
Provisional Catalogue of the Oil Paintings and Water Colours in the Wallace Collection
Memoirs Of Painting
The Year’s Art
The Connoisseur
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