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 7) (London: Smith and Son, 1836)

Xvi THE LIFE OF
production must have made a deep impression on the
amateurs of art in his favour. During the progress of
this work, in 1631, he appears to have freely indulged
in the practice of etching, for the following prints bear
that date: — The Onion Woman, a Peasant standing
with his hands behind him, The Blind Fiddler, The
Polander, two portraits of Old Men, a Beggarman,
Lazarus Klap, a Woman crouching under a tree, The
Bathers, four portraits of himself, six busts of old men, a
portrait of his mother, and two busts of old women.
The pictures of Nicodemus visiting Christ by Night,
and The Jewish Bride, are dated 1632; and in the
same year were etched St. Jerome at his Devotions,
and The Rat Killer. In the succeeding year he com-
pleted the much-admired picture of The Master Ship
Builder and his Wife, The Saviour with his Disciples
in a Storm, and a portrait of himself. His etchings
of this year are, The Descent from the Cross, The
Flight into Egypt, The Good Samaritan, Fortune
Reversed, a portrait of himself, a ditto of Janus Silvius,
and two ditto of women, one of which resembles his
mother. The year 1634 appears to have been prin-
cipally employed with portraiture and etching; of the
former may be quoted two very fine whole-length por-
traits in the collection of M. Van Loon; and of the latter
are, Christ with the Woman of Samaria, Christ with his
Disciples at Emmaus, Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife,
The Angel appearing to the Shepherds, St. Jerome,
a portrait of himself, a Young Woman reading, an Old
Woman with a book, and a Beggar in a cold day.
Two pictures, one representing The Discovery of Calisto,