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)

WILLIAM VANDER VELDE.

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241. A Sea View, during a calm. The composition offers,
near the centre, a ship of war, carrying an admiral’s ssag, with
her stern to the spectator, and firing a salute. A yacht is on
the left, and on the opposite side are four boats full of passen-
gers. A small vessel with two persons in it, and also a boat
with two sailors in it, are in the middle. Painted in the
artist’s latter time.
5 st. 9 in. by 4 ft. 9 in.—C.

242. A Sea View, during; a light breeze. On the left is
a man of war, carrying an admiral’s ssag at the main-top, lying
parallel with the base of the picture, and firing a salute. On
the opposite side is a small ship of war, with her stern to the
spectator. Several boats are near the centre, and a number of
ships of war in the distance. Done in the artist’s latter time.
1 ft. 10 b?. by \ft. —C.

243. A Sea View, during a strong gale of wind. A ship
of war, with her head towards the left, is on the right of the
picture : she has a large ssag ssying at her fore-mast head ;
on the opposite side is a small vessel, and more distant is
a man of war, carrying an admiral’s ssag at her mast-head.
4 ft. | in. by 3 st. 4 in.-—C.

244. A View on the River Thames, with a representation of
a number of ships of war riding at anchor; among them, and
on the right and front, is a sloop with her stern towards the
spectator.
\ft. 11 sin. by 2 ft. 5| in.—C.
The preceding set of twelve pictures is particularly noticed by
Walpole, in his life of Vander Velde, and he therein says, that they
were collected at great prices by the late Mr. Walker, from whom
they descended to Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, at whose decease,
about 1829, they were divided among the family.