image below: the classic connoisseur of 18th-century collecting in America, Jayne Wrightsman. the collector's Palm Beach home, depicted here, has now been demolished. A Revised Post-Pandemic Perspective In recent years there has been much debate over the merit of the connoisseur / connoisseurship in art, which has been deemed an elitist tradition among some academics. There are several critics of this sentiment , one of which is particularly compelling: connoisseurship, or th