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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SCHOLARS AND IMITATORS

OF

WILLIAM VANDER VELDE.

The opinion given by those best qualified by experience of
judging is, that William Vander Velde attained to as high
a degree of excellence in art, as it is likely human skill will
ever reach. That this opinion is correct, so far as it refers to
his best works, there can be no question, and it is one that
does immense honour to the artist. Against the deceptive
imitation of such pictures, there is little occasion to caution
the amateur; but as the same protection does not extend over
the whole of his works, a brief notice of those painters who
have best succeeded in imitating and copying them is attempted
in the following list.
Walpole, in his Life of William Vander Velde the younger,
mentions, that he left a son, who pursued the same line of art,
and made good copies from his father’s works, but that he was
otherwise no considerable performer; and adds, that he went to
Holland, and died there. Where Walpole or Vertue obtained
this information from, the Writer is wholly ignorant, as he is
also of the painter alluded to.
Julius Pakcelles, bom at Leyderdorf, in 1628, was
a scholar of his father, John Parcel]es, a marine painter of