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Who was the first artist to use oil paint?
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The name of the first artist to use oil paints isn't known. However, historians have traced the use of oils back to 7th-century Afghanistan. There, Buddhist artists used oil paintings to produce religious artworks. One of the first artists to be famous for their use of oil paints was Jan van Eyck, a Flemish artist who was active from 1422 to 1441. On 1stDibs, shop a collection of oil paintings.
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Anthony Van Dyck workshop (Baroque) - 17th century figure painting - Deposition
By Anthony van Dyck
Located in Varmo, IT
Follower of Sir Anthony Van Dyck (17th century) - The Deposition.
100 x 130 cm without frame, 117 x 147 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a lacquered and gilded woo...
Category
Mid-17th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orientalist: "Arabian Horsemen" dated 1903 André Chaumière
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Fantasia of Arabian Horsemen" dated 1903
André Chaumière (French, XlX-XX)
Oil on canvas
Handcrafted original wood frame with bronze applique
20 3/4 x 12 3/4 (28 1/2 x 20 frame) inc...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Repos dans un champs de coquelicots - Pointillist Landscape Oil by Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed pointillist oil on panel figures in landscape by French neo-impressionist painter Yvonne Canu. This stunning piece depicts a couple resting under a parasol in a field of wildf...
Category
1960s Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Colourful Impasto Abstract Wild Flower Painting by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Colourful Impasto Abstract Wild Flower Painting by Contemporary British Artist, Evelina Vine
Art measures 8 x 8 inches
Frame measures 16 x 16 inches
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Blue Bunny)
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Untitled (Blue Bunny)
Date: 2021
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pocket Blue Tit's Egg, Original Painting, Egg , Nature, Still life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Blue Tit's Egg is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
