New insights into the materials of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Netherlandish paintings in the National Gallery, London

Marika Spring

doi:10.1186/s40494-017-0152-3

Heritage Science

Table 2 Type of colourless powdered glass additive in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Netherlandish paintings in the National Gallery, London, in chronological order

From: New insights into the materials of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Netherlandish paintings in the National Gallery, London

Artist	Painting (medium and support)	Date	Type(s) of glass
Jan van Eyck	Portrait of Giovanni(?) Arnolfini and his Wife (NG186), oil on oak	1434	Three types: wood ash with some fern ash, wood ash, wood ash–lime
Rogier van der Weyden	The Magdalen Reading (NG654), oil on mahogany, transferred from another panel	Before 1438	Wood ash
Follower of Robert Campin	The Virgin and Child before a Firescreen (NG2609), oil on oak with walnut additions	About 1440	Wood ash
Probably by the workshop of Rogier van der Weyden	Pietà (NG6265), oil on oak	About 1465	Wood ash
Dirk Bouts	The Virgin and Child (NG2595), oil on oak	About 1465	Wood ash–lime
Workshop of Dirk Bouts	The Virgin and Child (NG708), oil on oak	About 1465	Wood ash
Dirk Bouts	Christ Crowned with Thorns (NG1083), oil on canvas backed onto board, transferred from wood	About 1470	Wood ash–lime (high lime/low alkali)
Hieronymus Bosch	Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns) (NG4744), oil on oak	About 1510	Wood ash–lime (high lime/low alkali)
After Robert Campin	The Virgin and Child in an Apse with Two Angels (NG2608), oil on oak	About 1500?	Wood ash–lime (high lime/low alkali)
Workshop of Goossen van der Weyden	The Flight into Egypt (NG1084), oil on oak	About 1516	Wood ash–lime (high lime/low alkali)
Albert Cornelis	The Magdalen in a Landscape (NG2585), oil on oak	About 1520	Two types: wood ash and wood ash–lime (high lime/low alkali)
Probably by Jan Mostaert	The Head of Saint John the Baptist, with Mourning Angels (NG1080), oil on oak	Probably 1520s	Wood ash–lime (high lime/low alkali)
Workshop of Jean Bellegambe	The Virgin and Child (NG265), oil on oak	About 1520	Wood ash–lime (high lime/low alkali)
Lucas van Leyden	A Man aged 38 (NG3604), oil on oak	About 1521	Three types: soda ash, wood ash and wood ash–lime (high lime/low alkali)
Workshop of the Master of the Holy Blood	A Young Man Praying (NG1063), oil on oak	Probably 1525‒30	Wood ash
Martin van Heemskerck	The Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist (NG 6508.1),	About 1540	Wood ash
Workshop of Marinus van Reymerswaele	Two Tax-Gatherers (NG944), oil on oak	Probably 1540s	Wood ash–lime (high lime/low alkali)
Catharina van Hemessen	Portrait of a Woman (NG4732), oil on oak	1551	Two types: wood ash and wood ash–lime (high lime/low alkali)
Joachim Beuckelaer	The Four Elements: Air (NG6587), oil on canvas	1570	Wood ash–lime

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