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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 4414626, member: 56&quot;]Millboard itself seems to me to be quite stable, but a lot of stuff can happen to a painting over a hundred years or more.&nbsp; A lot depends on how it was prepared for painting. I don&#039;t know about the acid content of the paper.&nbsp; I think an assumption of brittleness is prudent.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it was particularly popular with amateurs, but I do have a mid-19th C portrait on millboard that looks professional to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were also 19th C equivalents of factory art that would be done on millboard as cost-effective.</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt you will find many large paintings on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Buying online is always a crapshoot.&nbsp; Better if you can make your own personal assessment hands-on.</p><p><br /></p><p>I once bought a print that was mounted to badly warped millboard.&nbsp; Pressing it for a very long period had no effect, the warp reasserted itself in no time.&nbsp; In that instance, I was able to remove the print from the board, but I wouldn&#039;t try that with a painting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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