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 (1908)
Smith, John, dealer in pictures · London : Sands · leaf 90
te clayey soil. A stream of water traverses the foreground, and falls in a gentle cascade in front, and the trunk of a beech tree, and its stump, are on a bank in the right. The cattle and figures which animate the scene consist of a peasant, followed by a dog; and on the farther side of the water… … JACOB RUYSDAEL. 75 236. A Grand Eomantic Scene, exhibiting, on the left, acluster of lofty hills, covered in part by pine and other trees;and on the summit of one of them is a cottage, with a quantityof timber scattered near it. A gurgling stream flows amongrocks the whole extent of the picture,…