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Across

2. A building for preserving and exhibiting artistic, historical, or scientific objects.

5. A person employed to point out interesting sights on a visit.

7. A theory and school of painting.

9. A thin board on which the artist mixes his colours.

12. A place or establishment for exhibiting art works.

15. A quality or value of colour; shade.

16. One who is sitting to have his portrait painted.

18. A synonym of “paint”.

19. The creation of what is beautiful.

21. A special skill, art or dexterity.

23. A rough, quickly made drawing.

24. A colour (pinkish red or purplish red).

25. A colour (bluish-purple).

26. A colour (a combination of red, black and yellow).

Down

1. A delicate shading of a colour.

3. The highest in quality, performance, etc.; most excellent.

4. A great artist.

5. A famous British portrait and landscape painter of the XVIIIth c.

6. A wooden frame to support a picture while the artist is working at it.

8. A picture of a sea scene.

10. A famous British painter of sea-scapes.

11. A humorous drawing.

13. A delicate stroke made with a brush in painting.

14. A colour (very bright red).

16. A single movement of a pen or brush.

17. An imitation or representation of a person or thing drawn, painted, etc.

20. A colour (between blue and yellow in the spectrum).

22. A particular shade or tint of a given colour.