Oil paint

Scope note

A paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle for the pigment. DAC

This term has 1,564 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Material
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300015050

Broader Terms used

<paint by composition or origin>

Narrower Terms used

lead-based paint

Term used for

color, oil
oil (oil paint)
oil color
oils
paint, oil

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Painting

Portrait of F.De Pisia, a Papal Notary

Maker(s)

Painter: Jacopino del Conte (Attributed to)

An image of Painting

The Agony in the Garden

Maker(s)

Painter: Lauri, Filippo

An image of Painting

The Virgin reading

Maker(s)

Painter: Franceschini, Marc Antonio (Attributed to)

An image of Painting

Death of St Peter Martyr

Maker(s)

Painter: Vecellio, Tiziano (Copy after)

An image of Painting

Stag hunt

Maker(s)

Painter: Zuccarelli, Francesco

An image of Painting

At Hampstead, looking towards Harrow

Maker(s)

Painter: Constable, John (Attributed to)

An image of Painting

Flowers in a landscape

Maker(s)

Painter: Lopez, Gasparo

An image of Painting

Portraits of five artists, Giotto, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael and Brunelleschi

Maker(s)

Painter: Il Salviati, Francesco (Francesco de' Rossi) (Attributed to)

An image of Painting

The Virgin and Child in Glory and the four Latin Fathers of the Church

Maker(s)

Painter: Conca, Sebastiano (Attributed to)

An image of Painting

Mary, Viscountess Fitzwilliam

Maker(s)

Painter: Unknown

An image of Painting

Esther before Ahasuerus

Maker(s)

Painter: Boeckhorst, Jan

An image of Painting

Portrait of a man

Maker(s)

Painter: Torbido, Francesco (il Moro)

An image of Painting

Adoration of the Kings

Maker(s)

Painter: Zuccari, Taddeo

An image of Painting

St Catherine of Siena before Pope Gregory XI

Maker(s)

Painter: Pellegrini, Giovanni Antonio (Attributed to)

An image of Painting

Cadmus and the Dragon

Maker(s)

Painter: Agricola, Luigi

An image of Painting

The Virgin with St. John

Maker(s)

Painter: Sagrestani, Giovanni Camillo

The Barn at Fingest, Buckinghamshire

Maker(s)

Painter: Freedman, Barnett

An image of Painting

Bust portrait of a man

Maker(s)

Painter: Backhuysen, Ludolf (Attributed to)

An image of Painting

Landscape with sportsmen

Maker(s)

Painter: Bril, Paul (Attributed to)

An image of Painting

Portrait of a young man

Maker(s)

Painter: Crayer, Gaspar de (Attributed to)

An image of Painting

A glass vase of flowers

Maker(s)

Painter: Calraet, Abraham Pietersz. van

An image of Painting

Boors playing cards

Maker(s)

Painter: Gelton, Toussaint

An image of Painting

Twelve months of flowers: January

Maker(s)

Painter: Huysum, Jacob van

An image of Painting

River scene

Maker(s)

Painter: Brueghel, Jan, the younger (Attributed to)

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