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 (Band 9): Supplement (London: Smith and Son, 1842)

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38. An elderly Woman reading. She is dressed in a
purple velvet mantle bordered with ermine, and holds an
open book on which her attention is fixed.
41 in. by 31 in.—P.
Collection of M. Servad, Amst. 1778. lOOOyso. (84Z.)
39. A Hermit at his Devotions. A venerable man with
a bald head and a long gray beard, habited in a brown
mantle, seated in an arched cell, with a large book lying open
before him, a leaf of which he is in the act of turning over
with his right hand, while the left holds his reading glass.
A skull and a lighted candle are on the table, and a lantern
hangs above.
13 m. by 9t- in.—P. (arched.')
Collection of the Duchess de Berri. Exhibited for private sale
at Messrs. Christie and Manson’s, 1834, price 3001.; subsequently
sold by auction by M. Paillet, at Paris, 1837. 8250./?. (346/.)
40. A pretty young Woman at an arched window, gather-
ing a pink from a pot of ssowers standing in front. See No.
52, Vol. I.
This picture was exhibited in the Collection of the Duchess de
Berri, at Messrs. Christie and Manson’s, for private sale, in 1834;
price 5001. Bought by William Beckford, Esq., who has since
sold it to Mr. Nieuwenhuys for the same amount, from whom it
has passed into the collection of the Right Hon. Lord Ashburton.
41. A Kitchen, in which are a great variety of Culinary
Utensils, some of which are grouped on the foreground, and
others lie on a table at the side, near which is a young
woman, who is so subdued by shadow as to give full effect to
the inanimate objects, which are painted with surprising
truth and neatness.
About 8 in. by 11 in.—P.
In a private Collection at Groningen.