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)

THE

WORKS
OF
GASPAR NETS ('Ll ER.
1- A Portrait of the Artist, when about forty-one years
of age. He is represented as a portly man, dressed in the garb
of a canon, having on a black coif, a close doublet, with a
broad white collar, and a mantle, which he holds in front with
the left hand ; he appears to be standing at an arched window,
on the sill of which he rests his right hand ; his palette and
pencils, with maulstick and knife, are on the sill, as is also a
small figure of Antinous, above which is suspended a cur-
tain : a bas-relief of boys decorates the under part of the sill.
Engraved in the Orleans Gallery.
1 st. in. by 1 st. | in.—P.
Brought, with the whole of the Dutch and Flemish portion of the
splendid collection of the Duke of Orleans, to England in 1798.
Now in the collection of John Fullerton, Esq.

2. A Portrait of the Artist, when about thirty-five years of
age. He is here represented as a man of delicate health and
slender form, his dark hair falling on his shoulders ; he has on
a velvet doublet, with short sleeves, and a full mantle, which
he holds in front with one hand, while the other is extended in
an attitude denoting him to be speaking to some one. Engraved
anonymous.
Described from a print.
The dissimilarity of person represented in the former and the pre-
ceding picture, renders it highly improbable that they represent one