oil painting

And cracked it is, a fine web of fractures disrupting the once soft and seamless surface — inevitable in an oil painting on wooden panel of its ancient age.

Made for Amsterdam's Arquebusiers Guild Hall, Rembrandt van Rijn's 1642 oil painting is one of the earliest to portray a group in action.

Also on the ticket - an oil painting of King George V and a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon signed by monarchist and former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

“I remember this smell,” he says, plopping down on a ratty sofa beneath a faded oil painting.

An artist who creates realistic oil paintings of the eggs his partner fries for brunch has so far sold more than 600 of them.