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Key People

Leo Castelli

American art dealer

Etching of a design for a table from his book, Ornamens Inventory, by Jean Berain the Elder, c. 1670–1700.

Jean Berain, the Elder

French designer and painter

Gerhard Dagly

Flemish artist

Spratling, William

William Spratling

American architect

William Morris

British artist and author

Charles Locke Eastlake

British author

Theophilus

German writer and artist

Wilhelm von Bode

German art critic

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