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)

178 IMITATORS OF ADRIAN VAN OSTADE.
Be this as it may, the writer has seen some of this master’s
pictures, which approached sufficiently near to those of Ostade’s
to induce a belief that he attempted an imitation of them.
Sorgh was an excellent draftsman, and always disposed his
compositions in a most picturesque manner. The various
objects of still life, which he introduced in his subjects, are
painted with great truth, and masterly handling; his colouring,
however, is weak, and his gradations imperfect, and in every
way vastly inferior to Ostade.