The gentleman's and connoisseur's Dictionary of painters : Containing a complete collection, and account, of the most distinguished artists, who have flourished in the art of painting, at Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, and other Cities of Italy : in Holland, Flanders, England, Germany, or France ; from the year 1250, when the art of painting was revived by Cimabue, to the year 1767 : including above five hundred years, and the number of artists amounting to near one thousand four hundred. Extracted from the most authentic writers who have treated on the subject of painting in Latin, Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Low Dutch. To which are added, two catalogues; the one, a catalogue of the disciples of the most famous masters; for the use of those, who desire to obtain a critical knowledge of the different hands, and manners, of the different Schools. The other, a catalogue of those painters, who imitated the works of the eminent masters so exactly, as to have their copies frequently mistaken for originals. The whole being digested in a more easy and instructive method, than hath hitherto 'appeared ; and calculated for general entertainment and instruction, as well as for the particular use of the admirers and professors of the art of painting
Dedication -- The preface -- The names of the principal authors whose works have been consulted -- Explanation of the technical terms -- The names of the painters contained in this dictionary -- The gentleman's and connoisseur's dictionary of painters -- A catalogue of disciples of the most eminent painters -- A catalog of those painters who imitated the works of the most eminent masters, with so great a similitude of style, touch and colouring, that the works of the former, are frequently mistaked for the works of the latter, though to a penetrating judgement, the difference may be plainly perceptible