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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than thirty ssorins, or something less than three
pounds sterling. Soon after the period above named,
a gradual advance in their value took place, in
consequence of the repeated demand for them by
English and French* dealers; and at the sale of
the celebrated collection of M. Vander Linden Van
Slingelandt, at Dort, in 1785, public opinion was
unequivocally pronounced upon their merits, by the
payment of prices in some measure commensurate
with their beauty, but which have since been in many
instances more than quadrupled.
* Le Brun, in his observations on Cuyp, gives the English
amateurs the credit of being the first to appreciate his pictures,
and says that they were sold in England for hundreds of pounds,
at a period when his countrymen paid little attention to them.