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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PHILIP WOUWERMANS.

huntsmen is in the act of spearing the animal. The land-
scape exhibits a highly picturesque country, with a bridge
over a rapid stream. On the right is a man angling, and in
the distance a ruin. In this beautiful picture the figures are
subordinate to the landscape. Description, No. 449, Vol. I.
improved.
11^ in. by 18^.—P.
In the Public Gallery at Amsterdam. Worth 300Z.
216. Breaking-in Horses. The principal features in this
picture are, a gentleman on a sorrel horse, riding round a
post, at which stands a groom with a whip in his hand; a
group, consisting of a stout gentleman, a lady, and a cavalier
wearing a hat and feathers, are looking on ; and behind these
are, a woman with a basket at her back, and a man taking
down a child from a wall. Before the group already noticed
stands a man, having the appearance of a horse-dealer. On
the opposite side of the post is a groom on a bay mare, which
a stallion is leaping, and from the heels of which a woman
with a basket of apples is escaping. Painted in the artist’s
second manner.
\st. 3 by \st. 9.—P.
In the Collection of Earl Spencer, Althorp.
217. Travellers halting at an old house, situate on the left
of the picture. One of them is on a fine piebald horse ; the
other, wearing a red cap, appears to be about to mount a
bay horse ; a little beyond these is a groom, riding a restive
grey steed down the bank of a river, in which two boys are
bathing, and two others are preparing to enter the stream;
two boys are also seen on a wall, near the door of the house.
On the opposite side are two dogs quarrelling; one of them
is held by a boy. Painted in the latter time of the artist;
clear and beautiful in tone.
1A 4 by \st. 8|.—P.
In the Collection of the Baron Verstolke de Soelen, Hague.