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 4) (London: Smith and Son, 1833)

SCHOLARS AND IMITATORS
OF
GERARD TERBURG.

Constantia Terburg was a daughter of Gerard Terburg,
under whose tuition she became an excellent copiest of his
works; many of these copies, being afterwards retouched by
his hand, have since passed for original works.
Roelof Koets was born atZwol, in 1655, and became a
disciple of Terburg under whom he perfected himself in the
elements of the art, and afterwards gained such extensive repu-
tation as a portrait painter, that his time was wholly occupied in
that pursuit.

Eglon Hendrik Vander Neer received his first instruc-
tions in the art from his father, and afterwards completed his
studies under Van Loo. There is, however, little in his style
to remind the connoisseur of either of those painters; but, on
the contrary, his elegant productions, representing ladies attired
in rich dresses (generally of white satin), occupied at their
toilet, or otherwise engaged, can hardly fail to convince the
observer, that the author of them had in view the works of
Terburg : and such, indeed, is the exquisite beauty of Vander
Neer’s pictures, that they are little inferior in value to that
master’s. He was born at Amsterdam, in 1643, and died in
1703.