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)

142 MINDERHOUT HOBBEMA.
delightful scene is animated with a number of figures by the
pencil of Lingelbach, the chief of which consist of a lady on
a gray horse, accompanied by a gentleman on a bay one, with
an attendant on foot, and five dogs; these are passing a pool
which overflows the road. A little retired from them is a
second attendant, carrying a hoop of hawks, and followed by
two dogs : beyond these are three boys playing on a green,
and still farther is a poor woman and children asking charity
at a cottage door. The general aspect is that of a fine sum-
mer’s day, with a few light fleecy clouds floating over the
hemisphere, and bursts of sunshine gleaming over the land-
scape, and flickering among the trees in the wood. Signed,
and dated 1667. This beautiful production may justly be
classed among the very finest os the artist’s works.
2/2. 71 in. by 3 ft. 6 in.-—C.
Now in the collection of the Hon. Henry Windsor.
83. View of an undershot Water-Mill, and the surrounding
country. The mill, with adjacent cottages, are situate on the
right, and the wheel of the engine is placed close to the side
of a red-tiled house, having a large trough and three shoots
for the water, which forms a pond on the front-ground. The
opposite side of the picture is composed of clusters of trees,
beyond which is a meadow with a quantity of timber lying in
it; other fields, intersected by hedges, are seen more distant.
The figures, which are by the hand of Hobbema, consist of
a woman, dressed in a dark jacket and red skirt, standing on
a path conversing with a man and a boy, and at the extremity
of the wood are two more persons. On the opposite side are
a man with a pole close to the paling of a cottage, and a man
on the bank of the water, angling.
2 st. 5| in. by 3 st. 6^ in.—P.
Collection at Christie and Manson’s, 1833. (bought in) 460 gs.
84. The Companion also represents a woody scene, with a
water-mill, built of wood and plaster, and having a boarded
roof: a large square trough is in front of the gable end of the