oil painting

the art or technique of painting with oil colors.

a painting executed in oil colors.

Origin of oil painting

First recorded in 1775–85

oil painter, noun

As he turned, his gaze encountered an oil-painting hanging above the mantelpiece.

The Kingdom Round the Corner |Coningsby Dawson
But this, my love, is an oil-painting, with what I judge to be a very valuable old-fashioned frame.

Punch, or the London Charivari, January 12th, 1895 |Various
Oil-painting a wall is a sure means of excluding and destroying them.

Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I |Arnold Cooley
The claim of Van Eyck to the invention of oil-painting in the 15th century, has been shown to be untenable.

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) |James Emerson Tennent

Giovanni Santi calls the inventor of oil-painting "Il gran Johannes."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848 |Various

oil painting

a picture painted with oil paints

the art or process of painting with oil paints

he's no oil painting informal he is not good-looking