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2 unusual facts about Oil painting


Oil painting

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

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.


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.

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.

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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Bert Kloezeman

He taught History of Art and Oil Painting in Woodstock, Ontario, and contributed to establish the Oxford County Art Association.

Cart with Black Ox

Cart with Black Ox is an oil painting created in 1884 by Vincent van Gogh.

Cart with Red and White Ox

Cart with Red and White Ox is an oil painting created in 1884 by Vincent van Gogh.

Chand kings

Oil painting on paper, by Marianne North July 30, 1878. In 1563, the Chand kings took control of the region, by overpowering small local chiefs and also the descendants of Katyuri Kings.

Chihiro Iwasaki

When she was fourteen years old, she began to learn drawing and oil painting under Saburosuke Okada, an artist and professor of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (later Tokyo University of the Arts).

Christiane Kubrick

In A Clockwork Orange (1971), a large floral oil painting adorns the living room of "Home", the abode of reclusive writer Frank Alexander (Patrick Magee) and his wife (Adrienne Corri) during the infamous "Singin' in the Rain" scene.

Clinton Family Portrait

Clinton Family Portrait is an oil painting on canvas by American artist Larry D. Alexander from Dermott, Arkansas.

Cows in the Meadow

Cows in the Meadow is an oil painting created in 1883 by Vincent van Gogh.

Decius Mus

Sir Peter Paul Rubens recorded his conception of the father in a 1617 oil painting.

Édouard Sain

An 1855 oil painting by Sain commemorates a visit by the Emperor and Empress of France to the crèche of Sister Rosalie.

First Steps Painting

First Steps (German: Erste Schritte, Greek: Τα πρώτα βήματα) is an 1893 oil painting by Georgios Jakobides, one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School.

Generación de la Ruptura

Gustavo Arias Murueta is a Mexican artist dedicated to oil painting, printmaking and drawing.

George Sotter

In a recent episode of Antiques Roadshow on PBS, filmed in Philadelphia, a Sotter oil painting was appraised $120,000-$180,000, much to the delight of its visibly stunned owner.

Guo Hongwei

He was born in 1982 and graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2004.

Handegg

Part of the permanent collection at The Cleveland Museum of Art is an oil painting entitled Alpine Landscape: The Handegg, Switzerland by French painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme which depicts the beauty of this locale still today, as it was during his world travels in the 1850s.

Henry Collen

This piece is on display at Bodelwyddan Castle, as are two other works, an oil painting on panel of Robert Vernon by George Jones and Henry Collen, painted in 1848 and a portrait of Henry Bickersteth, Baron Langdale, painted in 1829, entitled Master of the Roles.

In Front of Yorktown

In Front of Yorktown, 1862-1863 is an oil painting by Winslow Homer of men from McClellan's Army of the Potomac, before the Siege of Yorktown.

James E. Buttersworth

Buttersworth’s paintings of the 1893 Vigilant vs. Valkyrie II Cup match, done one year before his death, completed the chronicling of America's Cup races by oil painting just before the advent of successful photographic imagery.

Jin Jifa

In 1984, Jin obtained his lectureship at Department of Art, at Shanghai University, and he continued teaching oil painting till his official retirement in 2005.

Joel Iskowitz

Iskowitz's most recent D-Day painting completed is "Filthy Thirteen", an oil painting depicting a paratroop unit called the Filthy Thirteen, part of the 101st Airborne Division in Europe during World War II.

John Peter Russell

Two water-colours and a small oil painting are in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and there is a drawing in the Adelaide collection.

John Swaine

In 1834, having taken up oil painting, he visited The Hague and Paris to study and copy in the galleries there.

Joseph Augustine Clarke

'J.A. Clark', as he commonly signed himself, was responsible for the famous 1880 oil painting 'Panorama of Brisbane from Bowen Terrace' and also for all of the famous front pages and title-illustration used in the Queenslander (see illustration on this page) during Lukin's managing editorship of that Journal from 1873 to 1880.

Landscape with a Carriage and a Train

Landscape with a Carriage and a Train is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he painted in June 1890 when he lived in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

Lawrence Harris

This record was set by Abandoned Ship, 72 by 48 inch oil painting on board sold December 13, 2007, at Best of the West Auctions (Colorado Springs, Colorado).

Lodowicke Muggleton

From the engraving, a small oil painting was made by a Muggletonian, Richard Pickersgill (possibly related to Frederick Richard Pickersgill) in 1813.

Lois Mailou Jones

Elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts in London; receives Franz Bader Award for Oil Painting from National Museum of Art for Peasants on Parade (1962)

Maria Adeodata Pisani

Pope John Paul II declared her a Blessed on 9 May 2001 at Floriana, Malta, soon followed by the unveiling of a huge portrait of the Blessed — a replica of an original oil painting commissioned in 1898 by Pietro Pace, the Archbishop of Rhodes and Bishop of Malta.

Marsillargues

The church was built in 1688 by Jacques Cubissol, and houses a remarkable oil painting on canvas "La Nativité" attributed to French painter Charles Errard.

Melesina Trench

Another oil painting, The Evening Star by Sir Thomas Lawrence, had her as a subject, and she was reproduced in portrait miniatures; one in Paris by Jean-Baptiste Isabey and another by Hamilton that was copied by the engraver Francis Engleheart.

Mouzinho da Silveira

In the Sala dos Passos Perdidos, in the Palace of São Bento, Mouzinho da Silveira was homaged with an oil painting by Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, while a comparable painting in Municipal hall of Lisbon, painted by José Rodrigues (executed in 1866) honours the politician, and in the Grão Vasco Museum (Viseu) a similar painting of Mouzinho by Columbano was framed.

Portrait of a Large Dog

Portrait of a Large Dog is an oil painting by George Stubbs.

Portrait of the Infante Don Carlos

Portrait of the Infante Don Carlos is a 1626/27 oil painting of Don Carlos of Spain (brother to Philip IV of Spain), produced by Diego Velázquez as one of the first paintings he produced during his stay in Madrid.

Qu Lan

QU Lan attended the China Academy of Art, graduating from the Oil Painting department in 2001.

Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

It is decorated with a large oil painting by Peder Severin Krøyer depicting A meeting in the Royal Scientific Society.

San Silvestro, Venice

The Adoration of the Magi by Paolo Veronese is a large oil painting on canvas painted for the church in 1573 which has been in the National Gallery, London since the church sold it in 1855, presumably to finance the rebuilding.

Santa Maria del Parto a Mergellina, Naples

In the chapel near the presbitery, the oil painting of the Epiphany is attributed to Jan van Eyck; this painting, Vasari claimed, was the first oil canvas in Italy.

Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps

Turner may also have been inspired by a lost oil painting of Hannibal's army descending the Alps into northern Italy by watercolourist John Robert Cozens, A Landscape with Hannibal in His March over the Alps, Showing to His Army the Fertile Plains of Italy, the only oil painting that Cozens exhibited at the Royal Academy, and also an entry in list of imaginary paintings written by Thomas Gray, which speculated that Salvator Rosa could have painted "Hannibal passing the Alps".

Stevenson Memorial

Stevenson Memorial is a 1903 oil painting by the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer, intended to commemorate the writer Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Cafe

Cafe Terrace at Night, also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh

This Dollar Saved My Life at Whitehorse

The album shares its title with a 1973 oil painting by Carl Barks which depicts Scrooge McDuck in his money bin telling a story to Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Donald Duck.

Thomas Müntzer

Müntzer is immortalized in the Peasant's War Panorama in Bad Frankenhausen, whose 1,722 square meters of painted surface make it the largest oil painting in the world.