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unusual facts about ''Sir Thomas Gargrave'', Oil painting



Alejandra Dorado

In LASALASDELUCRECIA (an installation inspired on the legendary figure in the history of the Roman Republic. The title may mean Lucretia's Wings, or Lucrecia's Halls), she portrays the same image of herself in seven different modes of representation (oil painting, stencilling, embroidery, etc.) as Lucretia, holding a dagger against her naked chest.

Anthony N. Moore

After graduation in 1974 from Exeter College of Art and Design, he painted a series of grisaille paintings in oil on board, a selection of which were exhibited at the Paton Gallery, Covent Garden, London.

Cennino Cennini

His discussion of oil painting was important for dispelling the myth, propagated by Giorgio Vasari and Karel Van Mander, that oil painting was invented by Jan van Eyck (although Theophilus (Roger of Helmerhausen) clearly gives instructions for oil-based painting in his treatise, On Divers Arts, written in 1125).

Charles C. Ingham

Settling in New York City, he distinguished himself by his oil painting, but also in watercolor on ivory, a standard medium for miniature portraits since the 18th century.

Ciruelo Cabral

Cabral uses mainly acrylic and oil painting, but also a number of other techniques, including his famous and distinctive paintings on rocks, which he created and calls 'petropictos' (literally, 'stone paintings').

Emilius R. Ciampa

He enjoyed both watercolor and oil painting, and painted profusely until just before his death, which came just one week short of his 100th birthday.

Feast of the Rosary

The Feast of the Rosary (German: Rosenkranzfest) is a 1506 oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, now in the National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

Ismail Shammout

Shammout's Where to ..? (1953), an oil painting on canvas, is a painting depicting the Lydda death darch in July 1948.

Mother with Child

Mother with Child, also known as Nurse, is an oil painting art series by Macedonian modern artist Nikola Martinoski created from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Oil painting

However, Theophilus (Roger of Helmarshausen?) clearly gives instructions for oil-based painting in his treatise, On Various Arts, written in 1125.

Oswaldo Moncayo

As a child he moved to Quito, the capital of Ecuador, where he learned the art of oil painting.

Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger

Until 1848, he carried out numerous illustrations of historical works and poetry, but also made oil paintings for the Austrian Royal Family.

Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa

His first painting recorded was in 1966 when he was 14 years old when he had painted an oil painting of the Khamis mosque.

Shigeru Aoki

Although his family strongly disapproved of his interest in art, he left home in 1899 to pursue his studies in Tokyo, first with Koyama Shotaro, a pupil of the Italian foreign advisor Antonio Fontanesi, who had been hired by the Meiji government in the late 1870s to introduce western oil painting to Japan.

Steam Elephant

More recent interpretation is based on research carried out at Beamish Museum for construction of a replica to work there based largely on contemporaneous paintings (one being the earliest known oil of a steam locomotive) and other material from the Museum archives.

Vigil of the Princes

The oil painting was produced by Frank Beresford as the official painting of the King's lying-in-state, and was exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1936 at Burlington House.


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