In deserts of gold frames appeared small oases of oil-painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

This is the art of colouring a photograph so as to imitate an oil-painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)] Reference

A large oil-painting of Admiral the Earl St. Vincent hung above the fireplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs] Reference

"But why," asks an interlocutor, "did he turn the cheese into an oil-painting?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wells and Women] Reference

I may be middle-aged and no oil-painting, but I think you are pushing it a bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Swear this is True...] Reference

He used to have an instructional show on oil-painting of the “starving artist” genre.    From Wordnik.com.  [2004 July 09 « Mudpuddle] Reference

At one end was the head of a girl, that they called “Emeline,” and at the other was an oil-painting of a cat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference

Slowly built-up texture in oil-painting gives you the best chance of changing without damage when it is necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art] Reference

So long ago as 1839, in the June number of this M.gazine, we noticed M. M.rimée's posthumous work on oil-painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference

She spends her free time doing rune readings, oil-painting, and searching for a home for her first novel, a farcical fantasy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Core on a Cord] Reference

We can no more estimate the success of a life by methods like these than we can adjudge an oil-painting by the sense of smell.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

I took up oil-painting last week and completed ten signs that will make up an interpretive trail at Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

Bruges, (celebrated as the birthplace of John Van Eyck, said to have invented the art of oil-painting), is now in a very dilapidated condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828] Reference

Gimblet had already exhausted the possibilities of that highly varnished oil-painting, and he went forth from the house in a state of deep dejection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story] Reference

"He was particularly fond of oil-painting, because this method allowed him to paint over and over again on the same picture, as he could not do in fresco.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters] Reference

The latter had been covered by a painted screen of wood -- possibly of late mediæval workmanship -- and this again by a huge oil-painting of the time of Charles II.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference

There is also a large oil-painting over the altar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chelsea The Fascination of London] Reference

On my way I stopped before a vast dingy oil-painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blue Germ] Reference

The whole town, in fact, was like an oil-painting to us.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Jolly Fellowship] Reference

Such was the system of oil-painting known before the time of Van.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference

When his mother gave her teenage son an oil-painting set during his.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to From A to Jay-Z, hip-hop star is letter-perfect] Reference

I go in for oil-painting, for instance, and that is the despair of my family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renée Mauperin] Reference

A large oil-painting, "The Raising of Lazarus," by Benjamin West, purchased in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference

He was looking up quietly and intently at a framed oil-painting that hung above.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dop Doctor] Reference

The art of oil-painting was carried to great perfection by Hubert's scholar, John of.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

A string quartet is to a symphony what a delicate water-colour is to an oil-painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whirlpool] Reference

Also a fine oil-painting representing Stonewall Jackson's last interview with General Lee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life on the Mississippi] Reference

From these sources it is not only demonstrated that oil-painting, at least in the broadest sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference

This leads us to inquire what were the ordinary applications of oil-painting in Italy at that time.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference

Occupying almost two-thirds of the north end is an oil-painting of King Charles I. and his family, by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chelsea The Fascination of London] Reference

At one end was the head of a girl, that they called "Emeline," and at the other was an oil-painting of a cat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900] Reference

You have often heard quoted the saying of Michael Angelo, that oil-painting was only fit for women and children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870] Reference

Central Africa or New Zealand has produced an oil-painting we know that somehow or other he must have got to Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Society] Reference

The reader is in possession of most of the conclusions relating to the practice of oil-painting up to about the year 1406.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference

Her different lessons had mostly been given at home, except those in oil-painting; and there was no air of schools about her.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl of Long Ago] Reference

With the loving support of his parents, Dave spent the next few years teaching himself his, now well-known, oil-painting style.    From Wordnik.com.  [TheForce.Net] Reference

When his mother gave her teenage son an oil-painting set during his three-month, on - his-back bout with nephritis, she stirred an artist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

The oil-painting which hangs on the south wall of the Ante-Chapel near the door -- a Descent from the Cross -- is by Anthony Raphael Mengs.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. John's College, Cambridge] Reference