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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JACOB RUYSDAEL.

white breakers, a few faint gleams os light, which steal along the
surface, and the sails of the diminutive vessels, which are faintly
perceived through the hazy mist, hang over the deep. The
awful grandeur of this magnificent picture fills the mind of the
beholder with sensations of wonder and delight, and while lost in
the contemplation of the powers of art, he will be compelled to
exclaim, that the author of such a work must have been both
a poet and a painter.
If an opinion may be formed from the prices for which this
superb picture has been sold, it w'ould appear that its superlative
beauties were by no means appreciated by the artist’s countrymen,
nor even by the French amateurs of 1802.
Collection of M. Sydervelt, Anist. 1766. . 214-fio. 19/.-
--- M. Braamcamp, . . 1771. . 264 flo. %5l.
-• M. Paillet, Paris, 1802. . 1460 fs. 587.
Purchased, privately, by the Author, from the family of the
Marquis Merialva, 1824, for 9000yk., 3601., and sold to the Earl
of Liverpool for 500/., at whose sale, in 1829, it wTas bought sor
the Marquis of Lansdowne sor 5351.

3. The Laundress laying out Linen to dry. A landscape,
with a brick ruin, of a picturesque appearance, on the left,
converted into a peasant’s dwelling, on the farther side of
which is a clay bank, clothed with bushes and trees, beyond
■which is a cottage. A pond, fringed with ssags, occupies the
middle and front; at the side of which, and near the building,
is a woman stooping to place linen on the ground to dry.
Engraved by Le Bas, and done in lithography by Spruyt.
1 ft. 7 in. by %ft. 1 in.—P.
Collection of the Count de Boudouin, 1772.
-- M. de St. Victor, . 1822. . 3060 fs.
Now in the collection of the Prince d’Arenberg, Brussels.

4. Herdsman, with Cows and Goats. A landscape, remark-
able for a large piece of water in front, on the farther side of
which, and towards the right, stands a square tower, adjoining