Who was the first oil painter?

Question

And when was that?

Answer 1

The Inca indians of the time period 3000 BC.

Answer 2

You'd probably have to define "OIL"

The first beings to extrapolate on the days experiences on cave walls may have used anything that produced lines or colors, but also may have had some levels of oils in the substances.

Your Q is far too vague for a proper answer here, however, and I suggest that the first to be "recognized" as a talent, or historically valid, still today, is an answer based on opinion.

We all have our own thoughts about who we enjoy in the context of ART,,,and it may be as invalid a subject to question, or debate, as are religion and politics.

Rev. Steven