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)

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certain degree of admiration, and the Dutch very properly rank
him among the last of their distinguished artists.
The Writer has no instance on record of any picture by his
hand selling in a public sale for more than 98Z.
He was born at Amsterdam, in 1680, and died in 1752.
Karel be Moor, like the preceding artist, combined with an
agreeable choice of subject a certain degree of talent, which
obtained many admirers, and entitles him to the same rank as
that painter. He was the son of a picture dealer; and having
successively passed through the schools of Gerard Dow,
Francis Mieris, and Vanden Temple, he finally entered that of
Schalcken, and is said to have very soon equalled his instructor.
One of this master’s best works, representing a pretty woman,
with a child in her arms, at an arched window, is in the
collection of Alexander Baring, Esq. The exquisite finishing
of this picture is by no means unlike the best productions of
Schalcken.
He was born in 1656, and died in 1738.
Olivier Van Durren, D’Euren, or Douven, as he is
erroneously described in the English Dictionaries, is said to
have learnt the art from two obscure painters, named Lambertin
and Puitlink, and to have been extensively engaged in por-
traiture, and copying pictures. He however found time to
indulge his taste in the production of original works, some of
which approach sufficiently near the style and colour of
Schalcken, as to induce a belief, that he either studied under
that artist, or took his pictures for his models.
He was born about the year 1656, and died in 1726.