The Free Hand Paintress by Robert Lewis Booth
Hand Paintress
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Date 2006
Oil on canvas panel
Size 17” x 15” 432 x 380
The figurines were decorated using colours made up from metal oxides; the pigments were then mixed with fat oil and oil of cloves
Enlarged detail from main painting
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The paintresses, whose artistic skills and keen eye for detail made them the crème de la crème among the workforce.
A Free Hand Paintress decorating Royal Doulton figurines.
This particular figurine is called “Buttercup” modelled by Peggy Davies