oil painting

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noun

the art or technique of painting with oil colors.
a painting executed in oil colors.

Origin of oil painting

First recorded in 1775–85

Related formsoil painter, noun

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Related Words for oil painting

picture, sketch, art, canvas, depiction, portrait, composition, landscape, mural, portrayal, likeness, representation, cityscape, seascape

Examples from the Web for oil painting

Historical Examples of oil painting

I go in for oil-painting, for instance, and that is the despair of my family.
Rene Mauperin
Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
This is the art of colouring a photograph so as to imitate an oil-painting.
Little Folks
Various
Lely was nearly as famous for crayon work as for oil-painting.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 4
Various
He assigned to her an elegant apartment, in which hung the only oil-painting of himself.
The Mormon Prophet and His Harem
C.V. Waite
We were received in rooms with tables and chairs, and an oil-painting!
A Journal from Japan
Marie Carmichael Stopes

British Dictionary definitions for oil painting

oil painting

noun

a picture painted with oil paints
the art or process of painting with oil paints
he's no oil painting informal he is not good-looking

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