Meanings of painting in oils in English

Yesterday she was painting in oils.

Yet the worst painting in oils that ever hung at Somerset House resembles the original in many more particulars.

The latter had the secret of painting in oils, and yielded to Castagno's entreaties to impart it to him.

Her weekly Bible-reading, painting in oils and in water-colors, needle-work, and other household duties, left her no idle moment.

It was the kind of sky that makes even the most prosaic person discover a deeply buried urge to start painting in oils.

He had once experimented at painting in oils, he had tried his hand at the stylus, he had made a few figurines in modeling-wax.

A grand piano, luxurious chairs, gigantic Boston ferns, Tiffany lamps, and a large painting in oils above the fireplace-ofa child with long curls.

Jackson's first attempt at a painting in oils was a copy of a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds lent to him by Sir George Beaumont.