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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was an excellent artist. No mention is made by whom he was
taught the art of painting, but his works show that nature was
the source from whence he acquired his best information. His
landscapes (to which he exclusively confined himself) exhibit
every variety that nature offers in mountain and vale, wood
and water, composed in a grand style, and admirably adapted
to the diversity of subject with which they are usually adorned
by the pencil of Rubens and Snyders. If subjects of the
chase are represented, the scene shows a wild and sterile
country, finely relieved by a bright sky and an agreeable
dispersion of sunshine and shade; but if intended for the
residence of Pan and other fabled beings of the poets, then
appears the thick Arcadian groves, and the rich luxuriant
vine. To an invention ever ready and appropriate, he added
the most masterly freedom of handling and rapidity of execu-
tion. His colouring is rich and transparent, and at all times
skilfully harmonized with those of his coadjutors. His talents
must have been in almost constant requisition by Rubens
and Snyders, although he occasionally assisted Diepenbeck,
Lang Jan, and other painters of the school. He was born at
Antwerp, in 1584, and died in 1644.
Lucas Van Uden. He had the advantage of being the
son of a painter, and was consequently instructed at an early
age in the several rudiments of the art; having properly acquired
these, he then made nature his constant study, and by that
means attained a degree of excellence which places him among
the best landscape painters of that period. With Rubens,
every man of genius was admired and respected, and he seems
to have taken a peculiar pleasure in promoting an union of his
own with their works, which he effected so skilfully that those
pictures appear to be the production of one and the same
hand. The landscapes of Van Uden usually represent hilly
scenery finely diversified with wood and water, enlivened by
the setting sun, or the partial gleams of that luminary. His
pencilling, particularly in the foliage of his trees, is tender and
delicate; his colouring exceedingly transparent, and well