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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GABRIEL METSU.

reference to the quality of the gentleman. A superlative
production. No. 95, Vol. iv., improved.
1# 6| byl# 4.—P.
In the Collection of Mr. Vander Loon, Amst.

28. The Letter. A lady, attired in a dark grey jacket,
bordered with fur, and a brown skirt, seated in nearly a
profile view, with a pet dog in her lap, and her right hand
placed on the favourite animal. She is in the act of giving a
letter to a female domestic, who stands on the farther side of
a covered table, with a pail under her arm. A book lies on
the table.
1 st. 0^ in. by 11^ in.—C.
In the Collection of Mons. Kalkbrenner, Paris.

29. The Intruder into a Lady’s bedchamber. See No. 94,
Vol. iv.
Sold in the Collection of Sir Charles Bagot, K.G.C. Messrs.
Christie and Manson, 1846. 586 gs.
Bought by Mr. Brondgeest, for the Baron Verstolke de Soelen,
Hague.
30. Portraits of a Dutch gentleman, named Gelling, his
wife, and four children, represented in a handsome apart-
ment. The gentleman, habited in a suit of black, is seated
on the right, resting one hand on a table; behind him is a
fine boy, dressed in the elegant costume of the period, advanc-
ing, holding in one hand his hat decked with feathers, and a
parrot perched on a finger of the other. The lady, attired
in a peach-coloured satin gown, and a white satin skirt, sits
on the opposite side, holding a child on a table ; behind her
stands a nurse with the youngest child in her arms, and in