Original Painting

Detail showing damage

The painting during cleaning

After conservation treatment

Conservator and Restorer of Fine Paintings, Cleaning & Lining Repair

Serving

• Museums
• Historical Societies
• Corporations
• Fine Private Collections

Services Include

• Structural conservation-panel painting & canvas
• Repair of tears & splits
• Consolidation of flaking
• Repair of paint losses
• Vacuum lining facilities
• Cold suction lining
• Hand lining facilities
• Lining on Linen, synthetic & for solid mounts
• Cleaning
• Filling
• Inpainting
• Varnishing

Analytical Services

• Monitoring & establishing environmental controls
• Surveying of collections & prioritizing condition
• Grant assistance
• Insurance assistance
• Ultra-Violet analysis
• Infra-Red Reflectography
• X’Radiograph analysis(can be arranged)
• Pigment analysis
• Macro & other photography
• Bioptical microscopic analysis
• Polarizing microscopy
• Historical 19th Century Art Materials Analysis:
  • labels
  • stencil
  • canvasmarks
  • stretchers
• Conservation Education lectures

Consultation

• Canvas & panel paintings
• Original supports, stretchers and canvases
• Humidity & climate control problems
• Unusual structural treatments for paintings
• Prepurchase examination