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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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE LIFE OF
PETER PAUL RUBENS.

Whatever tends to enlarge our information as to the charac-
ter of men who have so far distinguished themselves by their
intellectual endowments, as to attract the admiration and
applause both of their contemporaries and of every succeed-
ing age, must be valuable in the estimation of every inquirer.
Of this nature are the following very curious and interesting
letters, the originals of which were discovered in 1832 among
a collection of State Papers of the reign of James I, by Mr.
Robert Lemon, sen., under whose superintendence copies of
them were made and handed to the Right Hon. Sir Robert
Peel, Bart., from whom the author received them, together
with others referring to Van Dyck, for which, and many im-
portant favours in furtherance of this work, the writer desires
to express his deepest obligations.
Extract of a Letter from Mr. Toby Mathews to Sir Dudley
Carleton, ambassador at the Hague, dated Brussels, Oct. 9,
1616:—
“ I was lately at Antwerp to take leave of my Lady Pem-
broke, who departed thence towards England on the third of
this month. Mr.Gage and I dealt with Rubens for the piece of