Traditional House Paints and Pigments
Date/Time: 20 October 2022, 3pm BST
Tutor: Patrick Baty
Price: £25.00
Location: online
There will be a 55min presentation followed by 15min of discussion.
This seminar, illustrated with case studies from the author’s long experience in analysing paint in historic contexts, explores and explains: what paint is; why it was used; when house-painting started in the UK; how paint was coloured; which pigments were employed and where they came from.
During the 18th century ready-mixed paint colours were sold by colourmen who found ways to increase their output and lower their prices. The hierarchical nature of the colours on offer are explained.
Patrick Baty is interested in the decoration of historic buildings. His work covers research, paint analysis, colour & technical advice and colour surveys. Projects have covered a 400-year period and have ranged widely. He has worked in the UK and USA.
He lectures on a variety of subjects and has published numerous articles and books including The Anatomy of Colour (2017, Thames & Hudson) and Nature’s Palette (2021, Thames and Hudson). He and his wife run Papers and Paints, the family business in London.
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