painting on glass
The Unknown Goldfish
Years ago, a great-great uncle of mine died, and I received (amoung other
things) a painting of a castle, being very interested in castles and things. I
brought the painting home, and much to my surprise I discovered that instead of
being painted on paper and covered by glass, the paint was right ON the glass.
Was this technique common? Has anyone ever heard of a painting called "Castle
in Wales?" (I can't see the artist's name anywhere.) It would be interesting
to find out if it is worth anything - you never know. (I'm hanging on to it
anyways, though!)
--------
"Sad faces painted over with those magazine smiles."
- Heart
Suzanne P. Currie
yu14...@yorku.ca
www.geocities.com/Paris/2928/
The Amazing Technicolor Goldfish Page
aman...@usit.net
yu14...@yorku.ca (The Unknown Goldfish) wrote:
>Years ago, a great-great uncle of mine died, and I received (amoung other
>things) a painting of a castle, being very interested in castles and things. I
>brought the painting home, and much to my surprise I discovered that instead of
>being painted on paper and covered by glass, the paint was right ON the glass.
>Was this technique common? Has anyone ever heard of a painting called "Castle
>in Wales?" (I can't see the artist's name anywhere.)
I have no idea if they're really worth a lot, but I also had a
painting on glass several years ago. It was on an oval piece of glass
that was concave. This one was called "Christmas Eve." I say "had"
because the movers broke it on my last move. :(
Amanda
=
Gail & Harry Benson
The Unknown Goldfish wrote:
>
> Years ago, a great-great uncle of mine died, and I received (amoung other
> things) a painting of a castle, being very interested in castles and things. I
> brought the painting home, and much to my surprise I discovered that instead of
> being painted on paper and covered by glass, the paint was right ON the glass.
> Was this technique common? Has anyone ever heard of a painting called "Castle
> to find out if it is worth anything - you never know. (I'm hanging on to it
> anyways, though!)
Don't know anything about value, but my brother had one and learned the
hard way not to hang it on an exterior wall. Temperature variation
caused the painting to flake. Take care.......
Gail Verderamo Benson
Ronnie McKinley
>:Years ago, a great-great uncle of mine died, and I received (amoung other
>:things) a painting of a castle, being very interested in castles and things. I
>:brought the painting home, and much to my surprise I discovered that instead of
>:being painted on paper and covered by glass, the paint was right ON the glass.
>:Was this technique common? Has anyone ever heard of a painting called "Castle
>:in Wales?" (I can't see the artist's name anywhere.) It would be interesting
>:to find out if it is worth anything - you never know. (I'm hanging on to it
>:anyways, though!)
Glass paintings are executed with oil and hard resin or with
watercolour and gum on glass sheets. Colours are applied from the back
in reverse order. Unpainted areas of glass are often coated with
mercury, providing a mirror background to the coloured images; this
creates the kind of illusionary, bizarre spatial relationship between
the viewer and picture space. These have been a folk art
tradition in Europe and North America.
We on this side of the pond refer to these as 'Crystoleums' (not sure
if that is spelt correctly and don't know why that term is used or
where it comes from) usually carried out on convex glass, the majority
I see tend to be discoloured, brownish almost sepia, I would think
this discolouring has occurred over the passing of time and is perhaps
due to the use of the mercury, although I have come across ones with
wonderful rich colouring, and the most types I see are French or
Continental, mostly interior scenes or fashion. As another post
point-out they can be damaged by damp and moisture which you commonly
see as well. Hope we are talking the same sort of thing.
Ronnie
*****************************************************************
glenb...@dial.pipex.com http://ds.dial.pipex.com/glenbourne/contents.htm
Glenbourne Antiques 18th,19thc furniture & objects
*****************************************************************
JjakeCloud
This is a common practice, refered to as "Eglomise". A good place to
start, to find an expert to appraise, would be a clock/barometer repair
shop. This was often done as decoration, but thet also can be found on
their own. Let me know what you find out. Good luck, JHC