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Title: The Painter in Oil
A complete treatise on the principles and technique
necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors

Author: Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst

Release Date: January 6, 2010 [EBook #30877]

Language: English

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[Illustration: =November Beechwood.= _D. Burleigh Parkhurst._]

THE PAINTER IN OIL

A COMPLETE TREATISE
ON
THE PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUE
NECESSARY TO
THE PAINTING OF PICTURES IN OIL COLORS

BY
DANIEL BURLEIGH PARKHURST

PUPIL OF WILLIAM SARTAIN, OF BOUGUEREAU AND TONY-FLEURY, AND OF
AIMEE MOROT; MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK WATER COLOR CLUB;
FORMERLY LECTURER ON ART IN DICKINSON COLLEGE;
AUTHOR OF "SKETCHING FROM NATURE," ETC.

"_La peinture a l'huile est bien difficile;
Mais beaucoup plus beau que la peinture a l'eau._"

BOSTON:
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY LEE AND SHEPARD

_All Rights Reserved_

THE PAINTER IN OIL

TYPOGRAPHY BY C. J. PETERS & SON

PRESSWORK BY BERWICK & SMITH, NORWOOD PRESS
NORWOOD MASS.

TO
A. M. P.
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

_September 4th, 1897._

PREFACE

Books of instruction in the practice of painting have rarely been
successful. Chiefly because they have been too narrow in their point
of view, and have dealt more with recipes than with principles. It is
not possible to give