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... painting , history of , history of Western easel painting ( q.v. ) in oil colours , a medium consisting of pigments ground in drying oils . Oil as a painting medium is recorded as early as the 11th century . The practice of easel ...
... painting , history of , history of Western easel painting ( q.v. ) in oil colours , a medium consisting of pigments ground in drying oils . Oil as a painting medium is recorded as early as the 11th century . The practice of easel ...
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Painter 680 Painter , Theophilus Shickel ( b . Aug. 22 , 1889 , Salem , Va . ) , zoologist and cytologist who first ... painting , art of 13 : 869 , expression of ideas and emotions , with the creation of certain aes- thetic qualities ...
Painter 680 Painter , Theophilus Shickel ( b . Aug. 22 , 1889 , Salem , Va . ) , zoologist and cytologist who first ... painting , art of 13 : 869 , expression of ideas and emotions , with the creation of certain aes- thetic qualities ...
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... painting lessons from John Hesselius . In 1766 a group of Maryland patrons sent him to London , where he studied for three years with Benjamin West . Peale's ideas were firmly democratic , and it is recorded that he even refused to take ...
... painting lessons from John Hesselius . In 1766 a group of Maryland patrons sent him to London , where he studied for three years with Benjamin West . Peale's ideas were firmly democratic , and it is recorded that he even refused to take ...
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