Pre-Raphaelite painters had one pigment that might seem … odd … to people today. They ground up Egyptian mummies. In the words of one “mummy brown” enthusiast, “A charming pigment is obtained by this means, uniting a peculiar greyness (due to the corpse and its bandages) with the rich brown of the pitch or bitumen, in a manner which it is very hard indeed to imitate. It flows from the brush with delightful freedom and evenness.” The production of “mummy brown” died out in the 1900s — but only because the supply of mummies to make the pigment with was exhausted.
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