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)

JOHN AND ANDREW BOTH.

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After this melancholy event, Andrew returned to his
native country, and settled at Utrecht, where he
practised his art, and painted a number of pictures
representing grotesque subjects, such as mountebanks,
itinerant musicians, mendicants, boors merry-making,
drinking, or quarrelling, and fairs; these are generally
done in a slight, but free and masterly manner, abound-
ing in strong character, chiessy of the ludicrous kind.
Andrew never ceased to deplore the death of his brother,
whom he survived but a few years : he died in 1656.
his profession; in this opinion Mr. Bryan agrees, and adds, as a
proof of its correctness, that the loss of the assistance of Andrew
was supplied by Cornelius Poelemburg. The Writer, in the above
notice, has preferred Houbraken’s account of the artist, and he is
induced to rely on its correctness, from the number of pictures by
Andrew which were evidently done in Holland. The figures which
Poelemburg introduced in the landscapes of John, were probably
done at Rome ; for when Andrew returned to Utrecht, that artist
was upwards of sixty-four years of age.