A critical essay on oil-painting  proving that the art of painting in oil was known before the pretended discovery of John and Hubert van Eyck; to which are added, Theophilus De arte pingendi Eraclius De artibus Romanorum. And a review of Farinator's Lumen animæ, by R.E. Raspe.

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A critical essay on oil-painting proving that the art of painting in oil was known before the pretended discovery of John and Hubert van Eyck; to which are added, Theophilus De arte pingendi Eraclius De artibus Romanorum. And a review of Farinator's Lumen animæ, by R.E. Raspe.