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 5) (London: Smith and Son, 1834)

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SCHOLARS AND IMITATORS

Herman Zachleven has occasionally imitated, with con-
siderable success, the manner of Paul Potter, particularly in
those pictures in which he introduced pigs, and these he drew
with admirable precision, and finished with a dexterity of
handling little inferior to his prototype; their only fault
being too great a tendency to brown. He was born in 1609,
and died in 1685.
Emanuel Murant. Although the name of this clever
painter appears among those of the scholars of Philip Wouwer-
mans (of whom he was a junior pupil), his style and manner
are in every respect so dissimilar to those of his reputed
master’s, and in many instances so like those of Paul Potter’s,
that it is but reasonable to suppose he either took the pro-
ductions of the latter for his models, or studied under him
sufficiently long to acquire his system of colouring and hand-
ling. Many pictures by this artist have come under the
Writer’s observation, in which the figures and cattle bore a
striking resemblance to those of Potter’s, and from these
examples there can be little doubt but that he was well
qualified to copy, or imitate deceptively, the works of that artist.
There is in the collection of M.M. Hodgshon, at Amster-
dam, an excellent specimen of this class, in which the figures,
together with some sheep, goats, and pigs, introduced in a sort
of farm-yard, have a decided affinity to those of his supposed
master. He was born at Amsterdam in 1622, and died in
1700.
Karel du Jardyn. Notwithstanding the statements of
biographers, that this excellent artist was the scholar of
Nicholas Berghem, there is so little affinity in the style and
handling of his pictures to those of his reputed master, that
the Writer cannot refrain some doubt of the correctness of the
information ; but on the other hand, there is found in many
of his productions so decided an approximation to the colour