Wanted to study painting and music - that sort of thing.

She spent her school years studying painting and the history of art.

He enrolled in an art school for six months to study painting.

He went to an arts college to study painting and began taking photographs.

He moved to Paris early in his career and is thought to have studied painting there.

He lived in Madrid between 1851 and 1852, studying painting.

On his own, he started studying Western art history, painting and sculpture.

She had studied painting in Italy, where the thing was red wine.

He began studying painting in the 1940's, when abstraction held the field.

While in Rome he also studied painting with excellent results.