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 3) (London: Smith and Son, 1831)

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the peasantry of Flanders. The promise he gave of future ex-
cellence was disappointed by an untimely death, immediately
after his return from his travels in France and Italy.
Vincenzio Malo—has the reputation of having studied
successively in the schools of Teniers and Rubens ; his taste
and genius led him to follow the style of the former, in which
he blended, at the same time, the rich tints of colouring peculiar
to the latter. He is said to have spent much of his time in
Italy, where his works were greatly admired. Judging of his
merits as an artist, from the very limited number which have
come under the eye of the Writer, it may safely be asserted that
he was greatly inferior, both in spirit and execution, to Teniers ;
like him, however, he appears to have delighted in the pasticci.
One of his best works, representing Susannah and the Elders
(the figures of the size of life), was a successful imitation of
Paul Veronese.
Francis Duchatel—(a name seldom heard in the com-
merce of pictures), was born at Brussels, in 1625. Flis genius
recommended him as a pupil to Teniers, and his succeeding
good conduct, together with his amiable manners and sprightly
disposition, acquired for him the treatment of a son, rather than
of a scholar. He was the constant companion of his friendly
instructor, when out for the purpose of sketching from nature ;
and being thus continually under so excellent a guide, he became
a distinguished proficient in the system peculiar to the school.
Still desirous of improvement, he travelled to France, and
attached himself to Vander Meulen, who was at that time ex-
tensively engaged in painting the military achievements and
gorgeous processions of Louis XIV. The subsequent works
of Duchatel exhibit a mixed style, in which may be recognised
the peculiarities of both his masters. One of his finest pictures,
composed of an immense multitude of figures, represents the
Marquis de Castel Rodrigo, Governor of the Low Countries,
receiving the oaths and homage of the States to Charles II. of
Spain, then only five years of age. This picture (now in the
Academy at Ghent) is dated 1666. A second picture, by his