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The name of William Hooker (1779–1832), botanical artist, used in the possessive in Hooker's green, a bright green colour used in water-colour painting.
1853Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) II. 84/2 This method of imitating the mixture of ultramarine with yellow has grown into a system, but the colour is not durable: as in the cases of Hooker's green and Varley's green. 1886Jrnl. Bot. XXIV. 52 His memory is associated by artists with the colour called after him, ‘Hooker's Green’. 1948F. A. Staples Water-Color Painting i. 2 For paints get the following water colors in tubes: Alizarin Crimson,..Hooker's Green Dark. 1951R. Mayer Artist's Handbk. ii. 51 Hooker's green, a mixture of Prussian blue and gamboge. Sold in two shades, yellowish and bluish. |