Jan Dirk Baetens, Ph.D. (2011), University of Leuven, is Assistant Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published widely on the nineteenth-century art market and on nineteenth-century historicism. He is preparing a book-length study on the Belgian history and historical genre painter Henri Leys.

Dries Lyna, Ph.D. (2010), University of Antwerp, is Assistant Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published on the art markets and material culture of eighteenth-century cities in the Low Countries, co-editing Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900 (2015). He is currently preparing a book on the rise of art auctions in the Austrian Netherlands.