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1454 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 96 (MED) For a quarte of peyntyng oyle.]

a1536 Building Acct. in E. Law Hist. Hampton Court (1885) App. C. 351 [To John Hethe, painter] for laying of the joull-pecys rownde abowght the haull with grene merbyll in oyle.

1558 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 173 iiij baners of santes in owlle.

1594 H. Plat Jewell House 51 (heading) To refresh the colours of olde peeces that bee wrought in oyle.

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. ii. 84 Such a seeming softnesse in the Limbes, as if not a Chissell has hewed them out of Stone,..but a Pensill had drawne and stroaked them in Oyle.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 84 Painters work of ordinary lights of windowes in oyl.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 14 A sort of Pink for Painting in Oil and Miniature.

1795 Hull Advertiser 8 Aug. 2/2 Small portraits in oil, at one guinea.

1824 Lancet 11 Jan. 72/1 It will not be difficult for them to come up to those standards, who have so easily earned an oil and colour immortality.

1827 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxxi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 355 He should leave the iles and keep to water-colours.

1867 Nat. Encycl. I. 857 Antonello de Messina..the first Italian who painted in oils.

1935 W. Lewis in A. Alington et al. Beginnings 91 The penman went his own way undisturbed—bousculant, certainly, from time to time, and on occasion, the artist in oils and ink.

1978 C. Hayes Compl. Guide Painting & Drawing Techniques 9 For many years Rosoman painted in oil, gouache and water colours.

2002 Country Life 19 Dec. (Travel Suppl.) 34/2 In 1883, Marianne North took her easel and oils to the Seychelles, where she painted the local flora.