Depends on the lacquer.
The general rule would be not to apply hydrophilic paints (i.e. paints based on the polar solvent water, such as acrylics or watercolours) over hydrphobic paints (i.e. oil- or non-polaric solvent-based paints). The inverse is possible, because the oil-based paints can key-in mechanically into the rough surface of the other paints. Conversely, in addition to be repelled due to Van-der-Waals forces, the water-based paints cannot key into the closed film of oil-based paints (it depends on their roughness also). It is a question also of the respective surface tension and the relative wet-ability. These are complex phyico-chemical surface processes. Alcohol-based acrylics may attack oil-based paints and therefore, could be able to get a foothold on them.
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