Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Sir Joshua Reynolds” in chapter 5 of Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia:
...nd Rome.
(See Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. ) The credit to Gausias, of Sicyon, 33 B. C., as the inventor, is rather to be taken as an indication that he was an improver.
Sir Joshua Reynolds , in his attempts to fix his colors durably, mixed wax with them as a vehicle.
On one occasion he placed his painting before a fire to mellow the tints by warming the wax. On returning, he found the...
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