For hundreds of years, Lead White (pigment colour index PW1) was the most important white pigment on the European artist’s oil paint palette. Lead can be extremely harmful to the nervous system if inhaled or ingested. For painters of the past using Lead White oil paint, lead poisoning wasn’t an inevitable occupational hazard however artists such as, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Goya and Van Gogh have all been suspected of sufferering from lead poisoning.

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Film by the Jackson’s Team at the Jackson’s Studio, London. This film features Evie Hatch, Studio and Materials Specialist at Jackson’s Art Supplies.

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