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 1835 catalogue raisonné surveys the works of Dutch, Flemish and French painters, with biographical notes, descriptions, sale prices and locations, written for collectors and art dealers. Its one picture is a dim engraved interior of a painter seated at a palette beside an easel, with prints scattered on a chequered floor, suggesting strong light-and-shadow framing and tiled perspective for a designer studying old tonal engraving.
