The artist's assistant : oil painting instruction manuals and handbooks in Britain, 1800-1900, with reference to selected eighteenth-century sources - Carlyle, leslie (London : Archetype Publications, 2001)
Introduction : sources##PART I MATERIALS : OILS AND DRIERS##- Fixed or drying oils##- Processing of oils##- Driers##PART II MAYTERIALS: RESINS AND VARNISHES##- Oil varnishes##- Spirit varnishes##PART III MATERIALS : MEDIUMS AND OIL PAINT##- Vehicles and mediums##- Solvents and diluents##- oil paint and pigments##PART IV MATERIALS : GROUNDS AND SUPPORTS##- Grounds##- Painting supports##PART V PAINTING METHODS : SYSTEMS AND APPLICATION##- Systems of painting##- Paint application##- Final varnishing##PART VI THE DURABILITY OF NINETEENTH_CENTURY PAINTINGS##- The anticipation of change in materials##- Responsibility for the quality of artists' materials.
A revised version of her 1991 doctoral thesis: "A critical analysis of artists' handbooks, manuals and treatises on oil painting published in Britain between 1800-1900."
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