much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . september 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message winsor & newton type private industry art materials founded 1832 ; 184 years ago 1832 in london founder william winsor henry newton headquarters england area served worldwide products oils alkyds watercolours acrylics pastels artists brushes canvases papers brands cotman parent colart 1 website winsornewton.com winsor & newton w & n is a company based in london uk that manufactures a wide variety of fine art products including oils alkyds watercolours acrylics pastels artists brushes canvases papers portfolios and distributes the derwent pencil sets . contents 1 history 2 products 3 in popular culture 4 references 5 external links history edit winsor & newton ad in the photographic journal 1914 . the company was founded in 1832 by william winsor and henry newton . the firm was originally located at henry newton s home in 38 rathbone place london . this was then part of an artists quarter in which a number of eminent painters including constable had studios and other colourmen were already established . 2 the standards of quality for w & n s most renowned line of kolinsky sable brush the series 7 began after queen victoria ordered it should be the very finest watercolour brush in 1866 . 3 a few months before his death henry newton sold the business to the newly incorporated firm of winsor & newton ltd. which included members of both families amongst the shareholders . in 1937 w & n introduced its gouache paints . 2 the company moved to wealdstone in northwest london in 1937 . after world war ii w & n opened a brush making factory in lowestoft . in 1970 the company introduced its first range of acrylics and the first artists alkyd oil colour came six years later . later in 1992 a series of oil bars were launched . 2 the winsor & newton student range of watercolours was named after john sell cotman . products edit the art products made by winsor & newton 4 ink bottle by winsor & newton series 7 kolinsky sable hair brush product range brushes sable hog and synthetic hairs paints oil acrylic watercolour gouache paint sticks oil watercolour inks drawing and calligraphy inks papers watercolour ink canvas n a accessories canvas boards solvents masking fluids varnishes in popular culture edit the winsor & newton paints are repeatedly referenced in dorothy sayers 1931 detective novel five red herrings whose plot deals with a painter being murdered and six other painters being suspected of killing him . the painting habits of the suspects including which kind of paint is used by each turn out to provide crucial clues that eventually lead lord peter wimsey to the real culprit . in michel bussi s 2011 detective novel black waterlilies french nymph as noirs set in giverny winsor and newton is frequently referenced although it is imagined to be an american rather than a british company . karlheinz stockhausen and his studio assistants read product names from the winsor & newton catalogue aloud in his electronic composition hymnen . references edit our businesses colart lind ngruppen . retrieved 17 august 2016 . a b c winsor & newton timeline series 7 kolinsky sable brush winsor & newton products external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to winsor & newton . official website v t e selected royal warrant holders of the british royal family by appointment to hm the queen abels moving services ainsworths angostura limited akzonobel autoglym axminster carpets bendicks bentley motors bollinger britvic bt burberry cadbury carphone warehouse castrol charbonnel et walker daks dhl express dorma ede & ravenscroft fortnum & mason frank smythson gieves & hawkes h. p. bulmer henry poole & co j. barbour and sons james purdey and sons jaguar cars john lewis john lobb land rover louis roederer mappin & webb martini & rossi minky molton brown mo t & chandon nestl procter & 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