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)

400 SCHOLARS & IMITATORS OF W. VANDER VELDE.

Velde, for whose works they have sometimes been mistaken.
His pictures are now justly appreciated, and usually bring
from 50 gs. to 250 gs. a piece.
Lieve Vershnur. This artist was a scholar of Simon de
Vlieger, a marine painter of great merit, under whom he
acquired a perfect knowledge of the principles of the art, and
ultimately attained considerable reputation. His works occa-
sionally call to mind the style of William Vander Velde, but
the generality of them more nearly resemble those of the
preceding painter.
He died in 1691-
Brooking. This very clever painter is justly entitled to
be styled the English Vander Velde, for he appears to have
studied that masters pictures with success, and has embodied
in his works many of their beauties, and on some few occasions
has so nearly caught the magic of his atmospheric effects, as
to delude, on the first glance, an experienced eye. But in
order not to mislead the reader by these encomiums, it is right
to observe, that the generality of his pictures have so little
pretensions to be placed in comparison with W. Vander Velde’s,
that there is no danger whatever of their being mistaken for
that master’s.
He died in 1759, under forty years of age.