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 by Smith and Son from 1829, compiled for collectors, dealers and connoisseurs with biographies, picture descriptions and auction prices. The plates are monochrome photogravure reproductions of old master landscapes: storm clouds over a shadowed town, a row of thin trees along a canal, cattle and figures under heavy foliage, a ruined Gothic arch among trees, all tonal and sooty with soft grey skies.
