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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greater part of the fore-ground, which is overshadowed by a
clump of trees standing on a bank of the pond. A road
passes over some rising ground on the right, on which is a
man, followed by two dogs.
1 ft. Is in. by 1 ft. G^in.—P.
Now in the collection of J. Newington Hughes, Esq.
59- The Washerwomen. A landscape, with a river ssowing
through it, and three water-mills on its banks; beyond which
is a hill, richly clothed with trees. The figures which animate
the scene are attributed to Adrian Vander Velde, and consist
of youths bathing in the stream, and women occupied washing
linen.
\ft. 10 in. by 2st. 3 in.—C.
Collection of M. Coders, . . . 1789. . 880_/i.. 351.
60. The Cemetery. This grand and affecting picture exhi-
bits the ruins of a church and convent upon the summit of a
hill, occupying the whole extent of the view in the second
distance, the declivity of which presents a cemetery, inter-
spersed with large stones. On the fore-ground are a broken
tree lying across a rapid stream, a tomb of black marble, with
an inscription on it; a row of three sarcophagi extending
along the front; and on the left stands a cluster of large
umbrageous trees, the verdant hues of whose foliage is con-
trasted by the leassess trunk of a beech. Three persons in
black are seen near a small tomb on the side of the hill, musing-
amidst the tombs. The grandeur and solemnity of the scene
is strikingly enhanced by rolling stormy clouds, in which may
be perceived the evanescent colours of a rainbow.
&st. 6 in. by 5 ft. 9 in.—C.
In this excellent picture, the artist has evidently intended to
convey a moral lesson os human life ; and in addition to this, there is
a sublimity of sentiment and essect reigning throughout the com-
position which renders it worthy of the powers of Nicolo Poussin.
Collection of M. Marin, . Paris, 1790. . 2000fs. 801.
-—■ Anonymous, . . . 1802. . 3203 fs. 128/.