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
A catalogue raisonné by John Smith, published in 1833 in England, cataloguing the works of eminent Dutch, Flemish and French painters for collectors and dealers, with biographical notes, sale prices and locations of pictures. The single plate shows a seated man in a broad-brimmed hat playing a lute beside a small table with a candlestick, in a dim interior rendered in soft engraved tones, with a printed caption below; a designer might take its dark, shadowed chiaroscuro and relaxed genre pose as a model for moody interior scenes.
