Smith, John: A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters: in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures : a statement of the prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the continent and in England; a reference the the galleries and private collections in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the artists by whom they have been engraved; to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars & imitators of the great masters of the above schools (Part 1) (London: Smith and Son, 1829)

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SCHOLARS AND ANALOGOUS PAINTERS.
Francis Mieris, born 1635, died 1681. This eminent
artist was a scholar of Dow, and, while under his tuition, was
so close a copyist and imitator of his master’s works, that they
deceived good judges.
Peter Van Slingelandt, born in 1640, died 1691. This
artist was also a scholar, and a close imitator of Dow, under
whose name the best works of Slingelandt are frequently sold;
but although they are equally exquisite in the manual part,
they have always a tameness in the drawing, are meagre
in colour, and feeble in effect; in short, they have neither the
handling nor the energy of Dow.
Mathys Neveu, born at Leyden, in 1647, died aged.
This artist studied under Dow, and frequently copied his works
successfully.
Dominick Van Tol. He was a nephew, and probably a
scholar of Dow ; and it appears to have been the height of
this painter’s ambition to copy and imitate the works of his
uncle, in which he was successfully engaged all his life.
One of this master’s copies, representing a girl at a window
gathering a pink, was sold under his own name, at the sale of M.
Muller’s collection Amst. 1827, for . . . 1700 sso. 1501.
Another, known as La Faiseuse de Dentelle, was sold in the
Duke d’Alberg’s collection, 1817, for 335 gs.
Slabbard. This almost unknown painter was a scholar
and imitator of Dow, whose style and manner he strongly re-
sembles in his works, particularly in colour and effect; but