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One of Europe’s most beautiful cities, Delft is still defined by the silence and light captured so brilliantly by the great artist

Works by contemporary sensation Cressida Campbell, 19th century painter Josephine Muntz Adams and early 20th century artist Clarice Beckett are among a bumper number of lots.

‘There is enormous appetite’: art market revels as more records fall Save Share By anyone’s measure, last week was exceptional for Australia’s secondary art market, with $25.8 million in sales, 16 artist records set and a new high for an internet bid. Not only was a new record set for Arthur Streeton for his romantic vision of Venice, The Grand Canal, which hammered $2.5 million at Deutscher and Hackett in Melbourne, but the painting sold to an internet bidder, establishing...