The art of painting portraits, landscapes, animals, draperies, satins, etc. in oil colours: practically explained by coloured palettes : with an appendix on cleaning and restoring ancient paintings on panel or canvas

Abstract

Artist's manual illustrated with palettes of colours for specific projects like finishing white satin and painting blue satin. The text includes a chapter on picture cleaning and restoration and an eight-page publisher's catalogue of books, prints and art supplies. The author John Cawse (1778-1862), was a portrait painter, who in the early part of his career worked as a caricaturist. From 1801 to 1844, he exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy of Arts