Jameson, Anna: Companion to the most celebrated private galleries of art in London: containing accurate catalogues, arranged alphabetically, for immediate reference, each preceded by an historical & critical introduction, with a prefactory essay on art, artists, collectors & connoisseurs (London: Saunders and Otley, 1844)

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HUYSMAN (Cornelius, of Malines), b. 1648; d. 1727.
173 Landscape.-—A woody scene, with figures.
174 Landscape.-Labourers reposing. Copper. 9|in. by 12 in.
JANSENS (Abraham), b. 1569 ; d. 1631.
[A Flemish painter of great name and fame until eclipsed by
Rubens : unable to compete with his great rival, he is said to have
given himself up to idleness and dissipation, and so died. His pic-
tures are seldom met with out of Flanders, and the one ascribed to
him here, doubtful.]
175 The Interior of a Kitchen—with a woman scouring
a pot.
DU JARDIN (Karel), b. at Amsterdam, 1635 ; d. at Venice, 1678.
[He had a style of his own, which partook of that of his master,
Berghem, and that of Adrian Vander Velde. See p. 24.]
176 Travellers, with laden Mules—fording a shallow
river between mountains ; a castle on a rocky hill. The
effect is that of a fine summer’s evening.
Bought from the collection of Mr. Davenport in 1801,
for 200 guineas.
1 ft. 11J in. by 2 ft. 5J in. (Smith’s Cat. 108.)
KIERINGS (James or Alexander), b. 1590 ; d. 1646.
[A Dutch landscape painter, who was employed in England by
Charles I. In the catalogue of King Charles’s pictures, are two by
him, under the name of Carings.]
177 Landscape—with nymphs bathing. The figures pro-
bably by Poelemberg. 2 ft. 4|- in. by 3 ft. 4] in.
KONINCK (Solomon), b. 1609. [A Dutch painter, who imitated
the small pictures of Rembrandt.]
178 The Student.—In a lofty apartment a young man is
intently reading a book. Dated 1630, when the artist was
about twenty-two.