THE PAINTING & ART HISTORY COLLECTION
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A truly stunning
collection of over 140 vintage books compiled together for the first time on
one USB flash drive covering all aspects of painting.
Learn about all types of
painting – from using water colours, to painting oil on canvas. Discover how to
study pictures themselves – from the Italian masters of the Renaissance period
to the world-renowned Flemish, French and Spanish artists of old. Uncover the
history, philosophy and science behind the various methods of painting. This
wonderful collection has it all!
Some of these books are
extremely rare and will provide a valuable reference archive for anyone with an
interest in art and painting. The full list of titles speaks for itself!
This wonderful collection
of 149 rare and out-of-print books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great
content and fabulous illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been
scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on
your laptop, computer, tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also
print entire books or select pages.
The Full List of
Titles Included is as Follows:
A concise history of painting by C. Monkhouse (1893)
A course of water-colour painting by R. P. Leitch (1880)
A critical and commercial dictionary of the works of painters by F. P.
Seguier (1870)
A descriptive handbook of modern water-colour pigments by J. S. Taylor
(1902)
A guide to figure painting in water-colours - with illustrations and
brushwork by S. T. Whiteford (1880)
A guide to pictorial perspective with numerous illustrations by B. J.
Green (1851)
A guide to pictures for beginners and students by C. Caffin (1912)
A hand-book for young painters by C. Leslie (1855)
A history of British water colour painting with a biographical list of painters by H. M.
Cundall (1908)
A history of painting in north Italy - Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona,
Ferrara, Milan, Friuli, Brescia, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century
Vols. 1, 2 & 3 by J. A. Crowe (1871)
A history of the 'Old water-colour' society, now the Royal society of
painters in water colours Vols. 1 & 2 by J. L. Roget (1891)
A history of water-colour painting in England by G. R. Redgrave (1905)
A practical essay on the art of colouring and painting landscapes in
water colours by J. H. Clark (1807)
A practical treatise on painting in three parts - consisting of hints on
composition, chiaroscuro, and colouring by J. Burnett (1827)
A series of progressive lessons, intended to elucidate the art of
landscape painting in water colours (1812)
A system of water-colour painting - being a complete exposition of the
present advanced state of the art, as exhibited in the works of the modern
water colour school by A. Penley (1867)
A text-book of the history of painting by J. Van Dyke (1904)
A treatise of painting by L. Da Vinci (1721)
A treatise on landscape painting in water colours by D. Cox (1922)
A treatise on painting by C. Cennini (1844)
American romantic painting by E. Richardson
(1944)
American water-colourists by E. A. Gallatin (1922)
An essay on the theory of painting by J. Richardson (1725)
An inquiry into the beauties of painting; and into the merits of the
most celebrated painters, ancient and modern by D. Webb (1777)
Art and artists by R. Haskins (1851)
Art for art's sake; seven university lectures on the technical beauties
of painting by J. Van Dyk (1913)
Art treasures of Germany.
A collection of the most important pictures of the galleries of Dresden, Cassel, Brunswick,
Berlin, Munich
and Vienna by
A. Gorling (1873)
British painting by C. Baker (1922)
British water-colour art in the first year of the reign of King Edward
the Seventh and during the century by M. B. Huish (1904)
British water-colour painting and painters of to-day by J. Littlejohns
(1920)
British water-colour painting of to-day by C. G. Holme (1921)
Cambridge water-colours by W. Mathison
(1916)
Catalogue of a loan exhibition of Italian primitives (1917)
Chester water-colours by E. H. Compton
(1916)
Classic and Italian painting by E. J. Poynter (1880)
Collection des Goncourt; dessins, aquarelles et pastels du 18e siècle by
E. de Goncourt (1897)
Collection of mediaeval and renaissance paintings, Fogg
Art Museum, Harvard University
(1919)
Concerning painting; considerations theoretical and historical by K. Cox
(1917)
Considerations on painting by J. La Farge (1901)
De arte graphica - the art of painting by C. A. Du Fresnoy (1695)
Die Aquarell-Malerei by M. Schmidt (1874)
Early English water-colour. With a frontispiece in colour and thirty-six
other illustrations by C. E. Hughes (1913)
Essays in the study of Sienese painting by B. Berenson (1918)
Exhibition of works by the old masters, and by deceased masters of the
British school (1869)
Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Saargent by J. E. Pythian
(1908)
French painters of the XVIIIth century by E. Dilke (1899)
French painting in the sixteenth century by L. Dimier (1904)
Graphice, the use of the pen and pensil, or, The most excellent art of
painting in two parts by W. Sanderson
(1658)
Hampshire water-colours by W. Ball (1913)
Hand-book for the preservation of pictures by H. Mogford (1876)
Handbuch der aquarellmalerei by F. Jaennicke (1877)
Happy England
by M. Huish (1912)
Hardy country water-colours by W. Tyndale (1903)
History and methods of ancient & modern painting Vols. 2, 3 & 4
by J. Ward (1913)
How to judge a picture by J. Van Dyke (1888)
How to look at pictures by R. Witt (1903)
How to study pictures by C. Caffin (1910)
Italian masters in German galleries. A critical essay on the Italian
pictures in the galleries of Munich, Dresden, Berlin
by G. Morelli (1883)
Landscape and figure painters of America by F. Sherman (1917)
Lectures on painting and design Vols. 1 & 2 by B. Haydon (1844)
Lectures on painting by R. Wornum (1848)
Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy
of Arts by J. Opie (1809)
Lessons in figure painting in water colours by B. MacArthur (1881)
London water-colours by H. M. Marshall
(1915)
Looking at pictures by S. Smith (1921)
Marine and landscape painting in oil by J. W. Carmichael (1880)
Masterpieces of painting, their qualities and meanings by L. Jewett
(1915)
Masters in art - a series of illustrated monographs Vols. 2 & 3
(1900)
Memoirs of painting, with a chronological history of the importation of
pictures by the great masters into England since the French revolution
by W. Buchanan (1824)
Memoirs of the early Italian painters by A. Jameson (1890)
Miniatura; or, The art of limning by E. Norgate (1919)
Modern British water-colour drawings by A. L. Baldry (1900)
Modern painting by G. Moore (1898)
North Italian painters of the Renaissance by B. Berenson (1907)
Notes on the science of picture-making by C. Holmes (1920)
On the theory of painting - to which is added and index of mixed tints,
and an introduction to painting in water-colours, with precepts by T. H.
Fielding (1835)
Outlines of the history of painting from 1200-1900 A.D. by E. Mach
(1906)
Oxford water-colours by J. Fulleylove
(1916)
Painting and the personal equation by C. Woodbury (1919)
Painting in east and west by R. Norton (1913)
Painting popularly explained by T. Gullick (1859)
Painting, Spanish and French by G. W. Smith (1890)
Pictorial composition and the critical judgment of pictures by H. Poore
(1903)
Progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of portrait painting
(1828)
Spanish painting by A. de Beruete y Moret (1921)
Studies in animal painting with eighteen coloured plates from water-colour
drawings by F. Tayler (1885)
Studies in pictures; an introduction to the famous galleries by J. Van
Dyke (1907)
Studies of trees in pencil and in water colors by J. Needham (1895)
Studio, field, and gallery a manual of painting for the student and
amateur, with information for the general reader by H. Rollin (1878)
Surrey water-colours by S. Palmer
(1918)
Talks in my studio - The art of seeing, Facts and fancies about art,
Pictures; together with A plain guide to water-color painting and sketching
from nature by J. Ivey (1903)
The art of drawing in its various branches - exemplified in a course of
twenty-eight progressive lessons by T. Smith (1827)
The art of J. J. Hilder (1918)
The art of landscape painting in oil colours by W. Williams (1880)
The art of painting in oil by J. Smith (1788)
The art of painting restored to its simplest and surest principles by L.
Hundertpfund (1849)
The art of sketching from nature by P. H. Delamotte (1871)
The book of the art of Cennino Cennini - a contemporary practical treatise
on quattrocento painting (1922)
The camera or art of drawing in
water colours by J. Hassell (1823)
The central Italian painters of the Renaissance by B. Berenson (1911)
The classic point of view, six lectures on painting by K. Cox (1911)
The Dutch school of painting by H. Havard (1885)
The earlier English water-colour painters by C. Monkhouse (1897)
The early Flemish painters - notices of their lives and works by J. A.
Crowe (1857)
The Florentine painters of the Renaissance - with an index to their
works by B. Berenson (1900)
The German and Flemish masters in the National gallery by M. H. Witt
(1904)
The guide to flower painting in water colours with illustrations by G.
F. Rosenberg (1867)
The history of modern painting Vols. 1 - 4 by R. Muther (1907)
The home book of great paintings; a collection of one hundred and five
famous pictures by E. Hurll (1902)
The masters of past time, or Criticism on the old Flemish & Dutch
painters by E. Fromentin (1913)
The meaning of pictures by J. Van Dyke (1911)
The old masters and their pictures; for the use of schools and learners
in art by S. Tytler (1880)
The old masters of Belgium
and Holland by
E. Fromentin (1882)
The painter's cabinet, and colourman's repository by T. H. Vanherman
(1828)
The painter's educator. For stainers, varnishers, grainers, carriage
painters, fresco artists, gilders and amateurs; containing rules and methods by
T. C. Turney (1901)
The painters' encyclopædia by F. Gardner (1887)
The painter's methods & materials by A. P. Laurie (1922)
The philosophy of painting; a study of the development of the art from
prehistoric to modern times by R. Bell (1916)
The practice of water-colour painting by A. L. Baldry (1911)
The Royal institute of painters in water colours by C. Holme (1906)
The science of painting by J. Vibert (1892)
The secret of the old masters by A. Abendschein (1906)
The theory and practice of landscape painting in water-colours.
Illustrated by a series of twenty-six drawings and diagrams in colours, and
numerous woodcuts by G. Barnard (1871)
The use of a box of colours, in a practical demonstration on
composition, light and shade, and colour by H. Willson (1842)
The Van Eycks and their followers by M. Conway (1921)
The Venetian school of painting by E. Phillips (1912)
Three essays on Oriental painting by S. Taki (1910)
Tone relations in painting by A. Pope (1922)
Treatise on the knowledge necessary to amateurs in pictures by F. Burtin
(1845)
Trees and how to paint them in watercolours by W. Boot (1883)
Venetian painting in America;
the fifteenth century by B. Berenson (1916)
Water color painting, a book of elementary instruction for beginners and
amateurs by G. B. Allen (1898)
Water colour painting by A. W. Rich (1918)
Water-colour by N. Lytton (1911)
What is art - Studies in the technique and criticism of painting by J.
Van Dyke (1910)
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