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 to 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
A dealer's catalogue raisonné of Dutch, Flemish and French painters compiled by the London picture dealer John Smith, reissued by Sands in 1908 for collectors, auction houses and connoisseurs tracking attributions and sale prices. The plates are soft halftone reproductions of old master landscapes — avenues of thin-trunked trees, canal towns under towering cloud banks, moonlit rivers and figures resting by a bridge — usable as tonal skies, silhouetted tree lines and hazy atmospheric backdrops.
