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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MINDEEHOUT HOBBEMA

48. A View in Holland, with figures.
Collection of Sir G. P. Turner, Bart. 1815 150 gs.

49. Hobbema’s Cottage, situate in a woody-country.
Collection anonymous, at Mr. H. Phillips’s, 1815. . . 510gs.

50. A richly-wooded Landscape, diversified with corn and
and other fields. Amongst the figures that enliven the scene,
is a huntsman on a road, which traverses the picture.
1ft. 10 in. by 2 ft. 'Is in.—C.
Collection of M. Brentano, Amst. 1822. 500y/o. 47/. 10s.

51. A Water-Mill. The composition represents a familiar
Dutch scene, consisting of a canal extending along the front-
ground, bounded by an embankment, which forms a pathway
at the side of a high wall, above which are seen the upper
part of a large church, and the roofs of some houses. The
mill, which is built of wood on piles, occupies the left of
the picture. The scene may be further identified by a man
near the mill, who is casting his nets into the stream, and also
by a woman standing at the foot of some steps washing linen
in the canal. Signed, and dated 1657.
1 ft. 2 in. by 1 ft. 8| in.—P.
Collection of M. de St. Victor, Paris, 1822. . 2810fs. 112/.
Now in the Bridgewater collection, Lord Francis Egerton.

52. A View in the Environs of a Village, agreeably diver-
sified with cottages and trees. This excellent picture may be
identified by a group of five persons, whose appearance
indicates them to be either gipsies or mendicants: they are
assembled in front, near a cluster of lofty trees, and among
them is a woman seated, with a child at her back ; she appears
to be reproving a little boy, who is crying. A pond, overgrown
with flags and other weeds, extends along the left and front:
a hurdle fence, at the extremity of the fore-ground, divides it