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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and preceded by a man on foot, and near the latter is a
traveller sitting on a log. The right of the picture is thickly
wooded, and the sun sparkles among the trees.
2 ft. 4 in. by 3 ft. 7 in.—P.
Now in the collection of William Blathwayte, Esq., near Bristol.
87. The Water-Mills. A landscape, with a winding road
leading from the front into the distant country, from whence
branch two other roads, each of which leads to a water-mill in
the second distance; that on the right has a large piece of
water which ssows to the front-ground, with a boat on it; the
other is on the bank of a small stream. A man stands at the
half-door of the house adjacent to the mill on the right, towards
which another man, carrying a load at his back, is going. Two
large trees rise in the centre, and some logs of wood lie on the
left, upon one of which a boy is seated, looking at a man
approaching him on the road. Engraved by Vinkeles.
3 st. 3 in. by fst. 3 in.-—C.
A picture corresponding in description with the preceding, and
probably the same, was sold in the collection of M. Goll Van
Frankenstein, Amst. 1833. . 1930fs. 128Z.
Now in the collection of M. Steingracht.
88. View of Middelharnis, said to be the birth-place of the
artist. This surprising work of art exhibits a ssat country,
divided by a broad road, which extends in a straight line to
the middle distance, and thence, winding to the left, leads to the
above-named village, whose church and adjoining houses rise
conspicuous at the extremity of the plane, and to the right of
these, but more remote, are perceptible the masts of vessels.
Rows of tall spindle trees skirt the road on either side, and
on the left is a plantation, in which a gardener is occupied
pruning the young trees: this is surrounded by a deep
ditch, at the extremity of which stands a clump of pollard
willows, and on a bye-road near it, are a man and a
woman in conversation. The scenery on the opposite side
presents, near the front, various clumps of brush wood and