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Origin of waterglass painting

First recorded in 1860–65

There are limits to the painting of banditry and extortion as the legitimate raising of taxes.
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In “Sleigh Ride,” the narrator is painting a scene so perfect that it could be featured on an iconic Currier and Ives print.
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Was it your wife Helena in the Keane painting you commissioned?
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In one painting, framed as a split-panel comic between the two, Ramone simply asks Vicious, “Did you kill her?”
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It offers keen insights into Hitch's craft while painting an intimate and unsentimental picture of the man behind the camera.
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She did her work at a most interesting period in Dutch painting.
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This led to her painting portraits of various members of the royal family while she was still a pupil of De Zichys.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
In 1884 she once more yielded to the attraction that Paris had for her, and there made a great advance in her painting.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
A girl of forty-two weeks showed the same excitement at the sight of a life-size painting of a cat as at that of a real cat.
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The prophets had long been painting the visionary dawn with pigments of that glorious sunset.
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