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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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Piazza San Marco after the rain
By Beppe Ciardi
Located in Wien, Wien
"Piazza San Marco after the rain"
Oil on canvas
60,5 x 90 cm
Signed u.r.
Reverse:
Label Collezione Monti, Modena
eppe Ciardi was born in Venice in 1875, the son of the painter Gugl...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
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View Venice See Giudecca Guardi 18/19th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Giacomo Guardi (Venice, 1764 - Venice, 1835)
View of Venice with the Giudecca Canal and the Gesuati Church
oil on canvas
34 x 42 cm. - framed 40 x 50 cm.
Expertise dott Federica Sp...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venetian School, Ottoman Honey Merchant
Located in London, GB
This incredibly rare early depiction of an Eastern Mediterranean or North African honey merchant is thought have been painted circa 1620. It predates the Flemish-French painter Jean ...
Category
Early 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mont-Orford, Quebec
Located in Westmount, QC
Albert Rousseau, Canadian, 1908 - 1982
Oil on canvas panel
12 x 16 in
Signed lower right;
signed, titled and dated verso
Framed
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Napoleonic Wars Cuirassier Horse, 19th Century
By Sir Edwin Landseer
Located in Blackwater, GB
War Horse, 19th Century
after Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1872)
Large 19th century Napoleonic Cuirassier War Horse scene, oil on canvas. Excellent quality and condition depicti...
Category
19th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
Sara Shamma is a renowned painter whose works can be found in both public and private collections around the globe. Shamma was born in Damascus, Syria (1975) to a Syrian father and L...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
