Synthetic Organic Pigments in Talens Oil Paint 1920-1950 - The Case of Vermillion imit

Abstract

The Dutch paint manufacturer Talens and Co (now Royal Talens) started the production of the brand Rembrandt Olieverven in 1904 in Apeldoorn and much of the company’s historical archive still remains. The aim of the project “synthetic organic pigments in Talens oil paint”, to which this article refers, was to obtain information about the synthetic organic pigments used in early Talens oil paints. The production archive provided logbooks from the years 1922 to 1950, 174 Talens oil paint tubes and 10 Talens oil paint charts. Archival research on the production of these oil paints was complemented by analysis of historical paint tubes. This article will present the representative investigation of the Talens oil paint Vermilion imit. to explain the applied methodology as a case study.