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 raisonn\u00e9 of Dutch, Flemish and French painters, compiled by the London art dealer John Smith and issued by Smith and Son from 1829, listing pictures with biographies, sale prices and owners for collectors and the trade. The plates are halftone reproductions of paintings by Rubens and his contemporaries \u2014 a swirling allegorical group with descending angels, a woman in a wide plumed hat, a mother seated with two children, and a crowded wooded landscape of dancing peasants \u2014 useful for figure groupings, period costume and soft tonal backgrounds.
