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

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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