Excerpt from A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, Vol. 1: In Which Is Included a Short Biographical Notice of the Artists, With a Copious Description of Their Principal Pictures; Statement of the Prices at Which Such Pictures Have Been Sold at Public Sales on the Continent and in England Impressed with this opinion, he has ventured to sub mit his observations to the public; in doing which, he is fully sensible that the work has no claim to general notice as a literary production, or as an entertaining compilation. Its chief merit consists in the quantity of information, collected with a practical knowledge of the subject, and the persevering assiduity by which such knowledge was obtained.
