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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PETER PAUL RUBENS.

65. St. Ignatius Loyola and St. Francis Xavier standing
before an altar, the former habited in a splendid chasuble,
has one hand on a book, and the latter wearing a white sur-
plice, has his hands crossed on his breast; both of them are
excited by feelings of adoration at the appearance of the let-
ters I. H. S. in refulgent light over the altar. Engraved by
Bolswert.
Prints corresponding with the preceding description are
engraved, both of a large and small size, representing the
same saints separately, by S. a Bolswert; also busts of the
same by the same, also by Borrekins. Donck and St. Igna-
tius in an oval, anonymous.
66. A Picture of St. Ignatius Loyola, corresponding with
the preceding, painted in the artist’s careful manner, is in
the collection of the Earl of Warwick.

67. Christ’s Charge to Peter. See description No. 146,
Vol. n.
Sale of the Collection of Mons. Van Lankeren, Antwerp,
1835. 10,100 fls. and 10 per cent.—444?. Bought by Mr.
Nieuwenhuys, who sold it the following year to Lord North-
wick. In 1838 it was again submitted to public auction, to-
gether with a large portion of that nobleman’s collection, the
catalogue of which was penned by his lordship’s own hand,
and is one of the most curious specimens of this class of writ-
ing extant, as it shows that a proprietor, however high his
rank, can commend his own property as warmly as the most
humble individual, when offering it for public competition.
The reader is particularly invited to peruse the article on the
picture nowunder notice, (lot 170), in which his lordship has
treated the author of this work with much sarcastic severity,
but whether justly or otherwise, must be left to the reader to
determine after a perusal of the following extract from that
catalogue, and the result at the sale. “ As this sublime