Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice

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Figure 2. Image source: Period photo reproduced in O. von Schleinitz, William Holman Hunt (Bielefeld


and Leipzig: Verlag von Velhagen & Klasing, 1907).


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Figure 5. William Holman Hunt, Autoritratto, Galleria degli Uffizi. Image provided by permission of the


Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali, Florence, Italy.


Figure 6. Unknown Artist. Paint Bladder, 19th century. Oil paint contained in an animal bladder with


three ivory plugs; 4.45 x 2.54 cm (1 3/4 x 1 in.) Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Straus Center for


Conservation. Gift of C. Roberson and Co., London, FINV2155.


Photo: Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College


Brass paint tube, (not assigned). Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Straus.698


Photo: Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College


Empty paint tube, (not assigned). Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Straus.696


Photo: Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College


Figure 8. William Holman Hunt. The Miracle of the Sacred Fire, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 1892-



  1. Mixture of oil and resin on canvas; 92.1 x 125.7 cm (36 1/4 x 49 1/2 in.) Framed: 114.5 x 148.3 x 7


cm (45 1/16 x 58 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.) Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop,


Class of 1886, 1942.198.


Photo: Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College


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Figure 3. The Execution of Lady Jane Grey. Pencil drawing for the central group, 18 X 16.5 cm. © The


Trustees of the British Museum.


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Figure 2. J. M. W. Turner, Dolbadern Castle, North Wales, 1802. Oil on canvas, 1190 x 889 mm.


Courtesy of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, http://www.racollection.org.uk.


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Figure 6. Detail of Anna's veil, painted over clouds and sky, from Joshua Reynolds's The Death of


Dido, ca. 1781. Oil on canvas, 14 73 X 2407. Supplied by Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen


Elizabeth II 2012.


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Figure 3. Brushes, paints, palettes, and other painting materials. © The Hunterian, University of Glasgow





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