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 6) (London: Smith and Son, 1835)

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a similar one, of smaller dimensions, is in the collec-
tion of William Wells, Esq.; and a third, of singular
beauty, and also small, was bought at the sale of
M. Muller’s pictures, at Amsterdam, in 1827, by the
Directors of the Musee of that city, at the extra-
ordinary price of £.550.
Nor is his woodland scenery less deserving of com-
mendation, for the luxuriance and rich variety of the
foliage of his trees, the broken grounds, and unfre-
quented road, through pools of water, overgrown with
ssags and other weeds, bounded in the distance either by
the gloomy glen or castellated mountain. The Prince
of Orange, William Wells, Esq., John Kibble, Esq.,
the Vienna Gallery, and the Louvre, possess specimens
of this description. Two pictures also, of a highly
classical character, merit particular notice : one of
them is in the collection of Mr. Mackintosh; the other
in the Dresden Gallery. They are styled “ The Jews’
Burying Ground ; ” but are evidently intended as
allegories of human life.
Never did pencil pourtray with greater fidelity the
frozen aspect of winter, or represent with more gran-
deur the dark and stormy ocean. Of the former, there
is an admirable proof of his abilities in the collection
of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel; and of the
latter, the Marquis of Lansdowne purchased a magni-
ficent example, at the sale of the late Lord Liverpool’s
pictures; and a second, of similar merit, is in the
Louvre. Pictures of this description, and also his
coast scenes, are the rarest of his works.
Having briessy noticed the various scenes which
employed his pencil, it will not be deemed superssuous to