The Artist's Assistant

Leslie Carlyle

ISBN: 1-873132-16-6 • 2001 • $140 • Cloth

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, although artists' colourmen sold oil paint ready-prepared in bladders, artists were still accustomed to purchasing pigments, oils, and other component, personal preference of hearsay. By the close of the century, however, artists' colourmen were providing tube paints for export worldwide and artists, now dependent on the colourmen, wree calling for product labelling, to enable professional and amateur painters alike to have full knowledge about what they were using. The science of artists' paint production had undergone a transformation.