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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LUDOLPH BACKHUYZEN.

a similar feeling to many of his works, chiefly con-
spicuous in his representations of Storms.
His disposition for conviviality may be sufficiently
evidenced by the following circumstance. After his
decease, a bag, containing florins, corresponding in
number to the years he had lived, was found in his
chamber, together with a note, desiring that the said
money should be distributed among a certain number
of painters (whose names were mentioned), and who
should be invited to attend his funeral; and he directed
that at the same time a bottle of wine, which he had set
apart for the occasion, should be given to each person
present, enjoining that the money should be spent, and
the wine drank gaily to his memory.
He died in the year 1709, aged 78.