The early painters in oil, being also painters in fresco, and accustomed to plaster grounds, appear to have prepared their panels, &c. with plaster or stucco, upon which they employed their colours, in some cases in water, in the manner of fresco or distemper, using size to fix them, and finishing with oil vehicles and varnish: and many such pictures have stood admirably well the ordinary effects of time, as appears among the works of Paul Veronese, Titian, Correggio, and others; ..,,,