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<p>[QUOTE="Debora, post: 1412066, member: 1476"]Well, here's a list of Pre-Raphaelite painters. You can go through and see if style of any matches that of your work.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pre-Raphaelite_painters" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pre-Raphaelite_painters" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pre-Raphaelite_painters</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And here's some internet information about when Pre-Raphaelite painters chose wood panels as support over canvas.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="3">"All significant Pre-Raphaelite paintings were done on stretched canvas, save a few of the smaller works which were on panel. On account of their desire for smooth and texture-less surfaces, the Pre-Raphaelites needed a very particular type of canvas and, as Townsend notes 'Without exception their canvases were plain weave and of middle to fine weight' (Townsend 57). Due to the smooth results provided by the use of wood panel, it is perhaps surprising that they did not opt for this more often. Wood panels were indeed readily available, but considerably more expensive than canvas. When they did make use of wood panel, it was in their smaller works (such as Mariana and The Pretty Baa Lambs) due to its considerable weight."</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Debora, post: 1412066, member: 1476"]Well, here's a list of Pre-Raphaelite painters. You can go through and see if style of any matches that of your work. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pre-Raphaelite_painters[/URL] And here's some internet information about when Pre-Raphaelite painters chose wood panels as support over canvas. [I][SIZE=3]"All significant Pre-Raphaelite paintings were done on stretched canvas, save a few of the smaller works which were on panel. On account of their desire for smooth and texture-less surfaces, the Pre-Raphaelites needed a very particular type of canvas and, as Townsend notes 'Without exception their canvases were plain weave and of middle to fine weight' (Townsend 57). Due to the smooth results provided by the use of wood panel, it is perhaps surprising that they did not opt for this more often. Wood panels were indeed readily available, but considerably more expensive than canvas. When they did make use of wood panel, it was in their smaller works (such as Mariana and The Pretty Baa Lambs) due to its considerable weight."[/SIZE][/I] Debora[/QUOTE]
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