VAN WORRELL ' S TABLEAU.
THIS is a most extensive tabular alphabetical account of the Dutch and Flemish artists. The dates of their birfa, their places of resi- dence, the class of their subjects, and their principal pictures, are each arranged in columns, and the whole forms a little pocket vo- lume. The list appears very complete : it is at least extraordina- rily numerous, and is probably the result of a good deal of investi- gation. The work is chiefly intended as a wade mecum for collectors and possessors of galleries. The motive which induced the author (himself, we believe, a Dutchman), an animal and landscape painter, resident in London, to set about the work, is thus naïvely stated.
" Those who are endeavouring to obtain them (galleries of pictures), should be well aegnainted, and sure whose work it is, to know that he is the poet who so truly delineated to us, to our eyes, the features, the true expressions of that figure, histoi y ur any other subject is to represent : for though it might have pleased others far superior to myself, I most solemnly confess that I was hurt when I beheld one of my own productions placed in a collection, and designated to be an original of Paul Potter : nor was it until I showed my work to the proprietor, that I could convince him of his error. I have witnessed at Paris, catalogues announcing for sale a Wouverman, which was but my copy ; and sold for a high price, it having passed for an original."
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