Michael Harding Oil Genuine Naples Yellow Light – 40ml

Lead Antimoniate, in genuine versions, appears to have been used as a pigment since the 5th century B.C. and has been manufactured since the 1400s, becoming one of the most relied-upon colours and in constant demand. I’m one of just a few colourmen left who continues to make the genuine article and not the modern alternative. I do so because its vivid, dense, almost primrose yellow cannot be mimicked, as portraitists and figure painters will attest. It’s more powerful and yet more muted than its equivalents among the Cadmium range, and its handling characteristics are incomparable. Because it tends to react when parsed with steel rollers, to this day I still grind it with stone. Genuine Naples Yellow is incredible—one of our best sellers.