Van Eyck has been known as the "father of oil paint" for hundreds of years, but does the medium need a paternity test?

The history of the discipline of mark making offers ... an environment of exploration and promotes a variety of approaches to art making, ranging from traditional media, such as oil paint on canvas, ...

Narrator: The highest-quality oil paint can be up to 75% pigment. Throughout history, the most sought-after pigments have been worth far more than their weight in gold. And that's because they ...

This has now been conserved and is on display in the new Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries Canaletto: Procession of Knights of the Bath In the Deanery at Westminster Abbey hangs an oil painting ... is ...

Willam Tom Warrener was close friends with Henri Toulouse Lautrec appearing in his painting 'L'Anglais au Moulin ... He studied at Lincoln School of Art and moved to Paris, where he met the ...

For the first time in history, it was practical to produce a finished oil painting on-site, whether in a garden, a café or in the countryside (although art critics would long argue if ...

An oil painting of a Māori elder by New Zealand painter Charles Frederick Goldie was sold at an auction for a record £1.7m, becoming the most valuable work in New Zealand’s art history.

The painting was once part of the great art collection of Alfred & Tekla Hess of Erfurt, Germany, and was first shown in Leicester in the 1944 exhibition 'Mid-European Art'. The exhibition ...