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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244. A bird’s-eye View over a ssat Country, with the city of
Haarlem stretching along the distance. Towards the fore-
ground are several small cottages, and some bleaching grounds.
A woman, accompanied by a boy, and followed by a dog,
are on a road in the left. The figures are very subordinate
to the landscape.
2ft. 9^ in. by 2 st. Is in.—C.
Collection of G. J. Cholmondeley, Esq. 1831 90 gs.
- Mr. Nieuwenhuys, . . 1833. . . . 195gs.
Exhibited in the British Gallery in 1819.

245. A Landscape, composed of sandy hillocks, surmounted
by trees and bushes; beyond which appear the roofs of two
houses. A pool of water covers part of the fore-ground, by
the side of which a man and a woman are passing; a third
person is seen on the farther side of the stream. A good
example.
1 ft. ^in. by 1ft. 2| in.—P.
This is, perhaps, the picture which was sold in the collection of
Lord Courtenay, in 1816, for 78 gs.—See No. 156, p. 49.
Now in the collection of J. Newington Hughes, Esq.

246. A Landscape, with a hovel on the left, and a clump of
trees on a knoll beyond it. A stream ssows from the opposite
side in gurgling eddies, among fragments of rocks on the
fore-ground, and a few trees occupy the farther bank of
the water. A shepherd attending his ssock, is seen on a hill to
the left. A clear and well-finished picture.
iyi(. 5^in. by 1ft. 9^ in.—-C.
Collection of M. Verbrugge, Hague, 1831. . 915 fo. 83l.

247. A woody Landscape, with a stream extending along
the front-ground, in which are ressected a cluster of trees,
occupying part of the farthest bank, under the shade of which
is a boat, with three men and a woman in it. A man and