Philip Hensher

The age of the starving artist

A review of A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by James Hamilton. A brilliant account of learning, or failing, to survive in a market of extraordinary brutality

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  • A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    James Hamilton

    Atlantic Books, pp. 400

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