Bodycolour

Many watercolours featured on here use the term watercolour with bodycolour.
So what is bodycolour ?
The method of mixing watercolor pigment with an opaque white pigment in a watercolor vehicle (made with gum arabic) is traditionally referred to as gouache. The method of mixing concentrated watercolor pigments with a vehicle that is made with fish gelatin (isinglass jelly) or animal gelatin (size) — without the addition of any white pigment — is traditionally called bodycolor (or distemper in England). However, the two terms are sometimes confused or used interchangeably, both in historical writings and current usage.

http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/pigmt7.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodycolour

Frank William Warwick Topham

[Naaman's Wife] 1888
oil on canvas

http://www.keyway.ca/htm2006/20060109.htm


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http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=frank-w-w-topham
1838 - 1924.
http://www.artnet.com/artist/652675/frank-william-warwick-topham.html



[Garden by the Sea]



[A Young Collector]


http://en.easyart.com/art-prints/artists/Frank-William-Warwick-Topham-10380.html

Charles Spencelayh - The Test

oil on canvas

James Sant - Scott Russell Sisters

1853
oil on canvas, oval

from left to right:
Louise Scott Russell (d. 1878), Alice May Scott Russell and Rachel Scott Russell (who died at 18)

Hablot Knight Browne 'Phiz'

[Gypsies]

oil on canvas

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/phiz/bio.html

1815 - 1882.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hablot_Knight_Browne

[1849 etching for David Copperfield, titled "I make myself known to my aunt"]

Investments: maritime art

There has been a surge of interest in paintings of ships with a new wave of younger buyers running up their colours, Emma Wall reports (Daily Telegraph)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/05/20/cmart120.xml

William Bromley - Feeding the Magpie

oil on canvas