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 the 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 1830 catalogue raisonné surveys the works of eminent Dutch, Flemish and French painters, with biographies, descriptions, sale prices and gallery locations, written for collectors and art dealers. Its one picture is a soft lithographic portrait of a bearded man in a wide collar and dark cloak, with his hand raised to his chest, drawn in tonal grey shading that a designer could borrow for period portraiture.
