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 2) (London: Smith and Son, 1830)

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the eye, also furnished him with the measures
of such as he desired to have, and whatever
other information their registers possessed.
The Author is equally impressed with a grate-
ful recollection of the kind and condescending
attention shown, by numerous noblemen and
gentlemen in this country, to his respectful ap-
plications to view their collections, for the
purpose of noting correctly the several pictures
necessary for this Work : but while he thus offers
his unfeigned thanks to those who have so
obliged him, he feels it but just to confess, that
his respectful applications were not, in one
instance, equally successful; and he has conse-
quently been compelled to obtain, at the expense
of his pocket, that which should have been
granted him, on such an occasion, from that par-
ticular quarter, as a matter of course, or at least
conceded as a favour, and doubtless would have
been, had those gentlemen, to whom the Writer
applied, chosen to have made the object of his
applications known to the illustrious individual
whose collection it was indispensable that the
Writer should inspect; but, thanks to the good