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 nine-volume dealer's catalogue raisonné compiled by the London picture dealer John Smith in 1829, listing Dutch, Flemish and French paintings with biographies, sale prices and owners for collectors and the trade. The plates are halftone and lithographic reproductions of portraits — ruffed burghers, an armoured gentleman with wife and children, Van Dyck self-portraits — useful for period costume, oval portrait framing and dark tonal grounds.
