Artists who sketched in front of the motif using oil paints to gather image libraries often kept those on paper, rather than wood panel or stretched canvas.
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How painting in oils in front of the motif became popular fifty years before paint became available in tubes, and how it was done by the experts.
He turned to painting the waters and coasts of the English Channel, with acclaim at the Royal Academy and rich rewards, sufficient to pay for the boats he used as studios.
A relatively latecomer, he started painting Pre-Raphaelite landscapes in 1856, with stunning results in the Alps, and his monumental view of Florence, but those proved unsuccessful.
Paintings of the wild and undeveloped country in Shinnecock when Chase was teaching summer classes in the closing years of the 19th century.
He was invited to teach hundreds of students attending a plein air art school each summer. For 12 consecutive years he taught and painted in the east of Long Island.
From Velázquez’s pioneering sketches of 1630, through Valenciennes in 1780, to Constable, Corot, and Pissarro, Manet and John Singer Sargent in the late 19th century.
Sargent’s paintings of Claude Monet and other artists painting, mostly in front of the motif, form a unique record of painters and their techniques.
While others painted near Rome, a slow revolution burned in the north, with Isabey, Daubigny, and most of all Jongkind and Boudin.
A selection of sky-rich oil sketches made in the Roman Campagna during the first half of the 19th century.
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