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The development of Photography in the late nineteenth century had a major impact on subsequent styles and subject matter in painting.

But then so did the increasing production of synthetic pigment materials - making colours available to painters that in previous centuries had been prohibitively expensive (lapis lazuli based tints) or had not existed at all.

The first synthetic organic dye (tyrian purple) appeared in 1856 - and within a generation a new colour word - mauve - had been added to the language.

The explosion in photography made naturalistic presentation of less interest to serious painters (photographers could do that), while the new synthetic colours made tone-dominated paintings more accessible and more exciting.

The two strands came together forcefully in Claude Monet's Impression, Soleil levant - which in turn gave rise to the Impressionism movement.

But I rather think this question hasn't quite been thought through properly.

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