Pomare, Queen of Tahiti, pictured with her family while the French forces land in the background. George Baxter is credited with inventing the first commercially viable method of printing in color, a combined intaglio and relief process using oil colors rather than ink. Despite his technical excellence and the general popularity of his prints, Baxter’s business was never profitable – his process was laborious and it seems likely that his perfectionism prevented him from completing many of his commissioned works on time.