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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RUBENS.

quently became the property of Prince Doria, in whose palace,
in Italy, it was exhibited, and called “The Family os Rubens.”
Political events in that country was again the cause of its removal
from the Doria family ; and Mr. Irvine, a gentleman distinguished
for his taste and judgment in the fine arts, became the purchaser,
and sent it to England in 1802, and the same year it was sold by
Mr. Buchanan to the Marquis of Stafford, for the sum of 3000 gs.
Engraved in the Stafford Gallery, by J. Heath.
Exhibited in the British Gallery, 1815.
This excellent picture (the value of which is greatly enhanced by
the interesting events attached to its history) was presented to the
National Gallery, by the Marquis of Stafford, in 1827.
562. Daniel in the Den of Lions. The prophet is repre-
sented sitting naked in the middle of the den, his hands clasped,
and his countenance directed upward with an expression of
earnest prayer. Nine lions are prowling around him.
7 ft. 6 in. by 10^7. 10 in.—C.
Engraved by Blooteling, Vander Leuw, and Lamb ; and in mezzo-
tinto by J. Ward. There is also an etching of it, by Street, extremely
rare.
This picture is inscribed in the catalogue of Charles I. (No. XIV.,
p. 87), which states, that it wTas presented to that monarch by my
Lord Dorchester.
Now in the collection of the Duke of Hamilton, at Hamilton
Palace.
563. St. George. A Landscape, intersected in the distance
by a river (said to be the Thames, with Windsor seen beyond
it). Near the centre, and extremity of the fore-ground, is
St. George, with his right foot on the neck of the vanquished
dragon, and presenting to the daughter os the King of Seline
the end of the girdle which she gave him to bind the monster.
These two figures are portraits of Charles I. and Henrietta-
Maria, his queen. Nearer the spectator, and on the right side,
is a group of four females, bewailing the ravages of the beast,
exhibited on the dead bodies lying near them, from the sight
of which two infants are recoiling with horror. The knights