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:
John Smith's multi-volume catalogue raisonné of Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, published in London from 1829 for dealers, collectors and auction buyers, pairing artist biographies with picture descriptions, sale prices and provenance. The plates are dark photogravure-style reproductions of genre and landscape paintings: candlelit taverns, family groups in curtained interiors, cattle under trees, usable for deep tonal backgrounds and figure silhouettes.
