No matter how many new brands pop up, the status of the old Holland will never be shaken. Founded in 1664 by the St. Luke's Guild, it is the oldest pigment manufacturer in the world, producing only oil paints for more than 300 years, and only dabbling in watercolor and acrylic paints after the 80s of the last century. Because of its considerable accumulation, the old Netherlands has the world's richest collection of classical pigments, and its oil paints are often used to restore the works of great Dutch painters such as Vermeer, Van Gogh, and Hals, and are also used by ancient painting restorers in more than 50 countries around the world.
The medium of the old Dutch classic oil painting paint uses the first cold-pressed linseed oil, which dries faster than the general refined linseed oil, and only mixes high-concentration pigments to obtain the thickest and hardest three-dimensional brushstrokes on the market, and the clear and consistent texture is highly respected by professional painters. The old Holland still uses manual grinders from the early 20th century, spending a lot of time grinding pigments in small batches at slow speeds, semi-manual filling, which can carry out strict quality control, and is well known among professional painters around the world.
The 168 shades of the old Holland are all long-lasting, and they have also received the support of many painters. However, a netizen on the well-known artist forum wetcanvas has done an evaluation and found that a small number of yellow, orange and red colors will fade under continuous strong light, and the British dealer has also claimed from the old Netherlands for the fading phenomenon of a Neapolitan yellow (PW4-PW6-PY42 mixed color) on behalf of the customer. The incident did not have a real impact on Old Dutch, most of its shades have stood the test of time, the colors have been alive for a long time, and they are more trustworthy than other brands, and most of those who are using Old Dutch oil paints say they will not change the paints.
From a modern point of view, mixed pigments are not as good as single pigment raw materials, but in the 17th century in the Netherlands, where the chemical industry was not yet emerging, mixed pigments were the main way to make pigments. In the last century, the rise of pigment chemical industry, the old Holland also introduced a lot of light-resistant new pigments, in 1985 finalized 168 colors of oil paint, its single pigment pigment has 94 colors, although the proportion is still less than 60%, the color selection takes some effort, but the base is completely sufficient.
Old Dutch classic oil paint overall strong coverage, 168 colors, opaque 109 colors, semi-opaque 29 colors, translucent 28 colors, transparent color 14 colors, the hue is more realistic, but if you want to support the overlay dye painting method, you need to choose some light transparent shades from other brands.
As a quality benchmark in the field of ancient painting restoration, old Dutch oil painting pigments are very valuable, with three specifications of 40ml, 125ml and 250ml, and 40ml is sold for 13-85 US dollars, about 88-580 yuan. Pigments are sent to ASTM for testing and AP certification, and toxic pigments and non-dangerous pigments will be identified with corresponding icons to keep the studio ventilated and generally do not pose health risks.
