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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A naked Woman with a Hermit.
1st. by 2 st. 6 in.
Now in the Vienna Gallery.—See No. 313, p. 97.
The Duchess of Brabant with her Lover.
3 ft. by 2 st. 6 in.—P.
Now in the Vienna Gallery.—See No. 289, p. 90.
The Three Graces with Fruit.
3 ft. by 2 st. 6 in.
N.B.—Sir James Thornhill bought this picture at Paris, which
was sold after his death.—See pp. 31, 137, ancl 150.
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The following Subjects are inserted in the Catalogue of
Ilecquet, and, for that reason only, are they noticed by
Basan, to whose work the Writer is greatly indebted for
much information, and as Basan has thought proper, for the
gratisication of the curious, to recapitulate them, the same
motive has induced the Writer to follow his example, and
the Connoisseur may then judge for himself
Six emblematical subjects, viz :—
1. Two Infants, one of whom has its arm round the other’s
neck ; one of them has spectacles on, and a pair of spectacles
in his hand, and is looking at a ssy.
2. Two Infants, one of them has a ssambeau and the other
a pair of bellows, and is before a chimney, where stands a cup
containing burning hearts.
3. Two Infants, driving a yoke of oxen in a plough ; in the
distance are four figures and three houses, on one of the latter
are pigeons.
4. Two Infants, seated on a quiver; one of them holds a
parasol, and the other has a fan in his hand ; a cloud obscures
the sun.
5. Minerva, armed with a spear and a shield, accompanied by