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 catalogue raisonné of Dutch, Flemish and French painters compiled by the London dealer John Smith and issued in 1829 for collectors, auction buyers and the picture trade, listing works, provenances and sale prices. The plates are monochrome reproductions of seventeenth-century genre paintings: lute and harpsichord lessons, brick courtyards, curtained doorways and table carpets, useful for shadowed interior settings, period dress and figure groupings.
