Identifier: raisonneoftheworks04smit (find matches)
Title: 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:
Year: 1829 (1820s)
Authors: Smith, John, -1718
Subjects: Painters Painters Painters
Publisher: London, Smith and son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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two Gentlemen and a Lady,disposed round a table placed near a large window. Thelady, dressed in a black velvet jacket and a scarlet petticoat,stands, with her back to the spectator, holding a glass of wineto the light, which appears to attract the attention of a gentle-man, wearing a yellow jacket with straw-coloured sleeves,who sits at the end of the table, opposite the window, havinghis gray cloak thrown across his lap, and his hat and featherslying on his knee ; the second gentleman, seated at the fartherside of the table, is amusing himself with two tobacco pipes.At the same time a woman servant, with a pot of embers inher hand, is crossing the room, in front of a large projectingchimney, over which hangs a picture. A brilliant light isadmitted at the window, which falls upon the group offigures, and is admirably diffused throughout the room, pro-ducing the most natural and agreeable effect. 2 ft. 5 in. by 1 ft. 11 in.—C. Collection of M. Van. Leyden, . . 1804. . 5500 fs. 2201.
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PETER DE HO 235 It was purchased, with a collection of Dutch and Flemish pictures,of the Count Portales, 1826, by the Writer, ;n <-and colour, that the t#^> Hoi tas, and dated 1658. . . 2075 ^o. 187/.was purchased by Mr.and sold to the Right 51. The Interior of * B<end of it, through winch arehouses: this part is brillianroom being feebly enlighten*of the door. Near the forme with an open door at them a street, with a canal andHummed with sunshine, theV a large wi

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