Abstract
A large number of artists' autobiographies and biographies were published between 1820 and 1940, satisfying public curiosity about artists' lives. Although they frequently provide only a limited amount of technical information, these works can be some of the few eyewitness accounts of artists' methods, materials and attitudes to their art, as the artist's papers were often destroyed subsequent to publication. The accuracy of these reminiscences, often written in advanced old age, should not be assumed, but in some cases it is possible to verify the information they contain against surviving correspondence, commercial evidence in artists' colourmen's archives, and technical examination and analysis of works of art.
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