Well Rembrandt built up colors and textures in his paintings through the use of layering (also sometimes used multi-layers) and also some of the paintings were thick, he used a strategy called "IMPASTO"
It’s b because most of these are older stuff
To set an example of how back in the early 1700s and 1800s how they were ruined by the government and used mills to get fresh milk and water with ought the government providing anything useful