Table 4 Purple fluorite in Netherlandish paintings
Artist | Painting title | Date | Location of purple fluorite in the painting |
|---|---|---|---|
After Robert Campin | The Virgin and Child in an Apse with Two Angels (NG2608) | About 1500? | Pale pink tile, with lead white and colourless powdered glass |
Workshop of Quinten Massys | The Virgin (NG295.2) | About 1510–25 | With lead white, in underpaint for the Virgin’s blue drapery (upper layer is ultramarine) [7] |
Albert Cornelis | The Magdalen in a Landscape (NG2585) | About 1520 | Pink of angel’s robe, mixed with red lake, lead white and colourless powdered glass [7] |
Jan Gossaert (Jean Gossart) | Virgin and Child (private collection) | Circa 1520 | Purple–brown background, in uppermost layer, mixed with red lake [37] |
Unknown Netherlandish artist | John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (National Portrait Gallery, NPG4953) | Circa 1520–1530 | Brownish purple sleeve [36, pp. 132–3] |
Workshop of the Master of the Holy Blood | A Young Man Praying (NG1063) | Probably 1525–30 | Background; lead white and purple fluorite (now hidden beneath overpaint) [6, p. 534] |
Jan Gossaert (Jean Gossart) | A Man holding a Glove (NG946) | About 1530–32 | Pink of sleeve, mixed with red lake and lead white [7] |
Follower of Jan van Scorel | A Man with Pansies and a Skull (NG1036) | About 1535 | Greyish-purple sleeve, mixed with lead white, smalt and azurite [7] |
Unknown Netherlandish artist | Sir Thomas Gresham (National Portrait Gallery, NPG352) | Circa 1565 | Purplish paint in the slashes in the sitter’s black costume, mixed with white [36, pp. 132–3] |