colourmen

In all the strokes illustrated it is assumed that the brush is moderately full of paint of a consistency a little thinner than that usually put up by colourmen.

The Practice and Science of Drawing Harold Speed

This is sold by the artists 'colourmen, or can be easily made by the student.

The Practice and Science of Drawing Harold Speed

The clay is the most essential thing, and this can be purchased at one or two artists 'colourmen, or, better still, at any pottery.

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. Various

Wooden modelling tools can be purchased at some artists 'colourmen, and also at some tool shops.

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. Various

England may be fairly assumed to be genuine; and certainly the respectable colourmen of the present day are not in the habit of sophisticating them.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

Denise and Mademoiselle Brun still lived in the dull little apartment in the Rue des Saints Pères -- that narrow street which runs southward from the Quai Voltaire to the Boulevard St. Germain, where the cheap frame-makers, the artists 'colourmen, and the dealers in old prints have their shops.

The Isle of Unrest Henry Seton Merriman 1882

Michelangelo took this as an insult to his design, and replied: "I owe the same thanks to Pope Julius who supplied the metal, as you do to the colourmen who sell you paints."

The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds 1866

The Aluminium is prepared, like the gold, in minute slabs: it may be obtained, of great excellence, from Messrs. Winsor & Newton, by whom also a very pure preparation of gold is sold; but both the gold and the aluminium slabs are sold by all good artists’ colourmen.

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844