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)

JOHN WYNANTS.

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right of the picture, opens over a varied landscape. Signed,
and dated 1661.
1st. 3 by 1st. 6.—C.
Sold by Messrs. Smith, at Paris, 1841.
36. A Landscape, composed, on the right, of a high hill,
of a yellow sandy soil, and of a broken and picturesque form,
surmounted by the decayed trunks of two old trees, and varied
by a few stunted shrubs and tufts of long grass. Upon a
highroad, on the opposite side, is a gentleman on horseback
approaching. The receding view presents a continuity of
dunes. Painted in the artist’s finished manner.
About 1 st. 8 by 1st. 5.—C.
In the Collection of Henry Bevan, Esq.
37. A Shepherd with Sheep. The view osfers, on the
right, a highroad leading from the foreground over a hill,
whose summit is clothed with trees, two of which, growing
close to the precipitous rocky side of the hill, cross each other
in their trunks. The left of the picture is composed of a
river, over which the eye looks to two small buildings, and
thence to the distant hills. A peasant, stripped to his shirt,
is on the road, in front, driving a ssock of five sheep,—two
others of his ssock have strayed, and his dog is running after
them; and on the summit of the hill is a gentleman on a grey
horse, followed by a dog. This picture may be farther identi-
fied by the trunk of an old oak lying in the centre of the fore-
ground. A fine warm evening. Signed, and dated 1670.
1st. 7 by 1st. lOs.-C.
In the possession of Messrs. Smith.
38. A Landscape, with a river, near which are three men;
two of them are angling; and on the right of the picture is
a sandy bank, with a hut; and a road leading to a distant
village. The figures are by Lingelback. Beautiful specimen.
1A 5 by 1st. 8.
Bought by Messrs. Smith in 1839 of the Executors os Edward
Gray, Esq., and sold to J. E. Fordham, Esq. Melbourn, Bury.