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A changing art : nineteenth-century painting practice and conservation

Title
A changing art : nineteenth-century painting practice and conservation / edited by Nicola Costaras, Kate Lowry, Helen Glanville, Pippa Balch, Victoria Sutcliffe and Polly Saltmarsh.
Author
British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers. Conference (2016 : London), creator.
Publication
  • London : Archetype Publications ; In association with the British Association of Picture Conservators-Restorers (BAPCR), 2017.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Costaras, Nicola
  • Lowry, Kate
  • Glanville, Helen (Conservator)
  • Balch, Pippa
  • Sutcliffe, Victoria
  • Saltmarsh, Polly
  • British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers, organizer.
  • Wallace Collection (London, England), host institution.
Description
ix, 133 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm
Summary
This publication contains papers from the BAPCR Conference 2016. Papers include talks on past issues and current problems. They examine approaches to restoration and the presentation of paintings in the nineteenth century as well as technical analysis and research into nineteenth-century artists' materials and working methods. The conference also examined the challenges faced by today's conservators when treating works from this period. The papers are illustrated with a large range of case studies.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Sally Woodcock -- Restoration practice in museums and galleries in Britain in the nineteenth century / Jacob Simon -- 'These pitchy pigments from their nature never harden': a nineteenth-century perspective on premature cracking in oil paintings / Nicola Costaras -- Building visual evidence of past practices in the creation of oil paintings / Leslie Carlyle -- Alteration, restoration and why pictures foam: what conservators can learn from a Victorian artists' colourman / Sally Woodcock -- Ernest-Victor Hareux and the Barbizon artists / Hayley Tomlinson, Sarah Herring and Gabriella Macaro -- Oily drops on the window panes: celebrity portraiture in a murky climate / Rosalind Whitehouse -- Observations on Rudolf Swoboda's painting technique / Nele Bordt and Katy Sanders-Blessley -- George Hendrik Breitner at work: new insights / Nienke Woltman and Suzanne Veldink -- 'Method cannot govern everything'. Delacroix: mid-century modern master / Adèle Wright -- Giovanni Boldini: technique and conservation. A systematic scientific study / Gianluca Poldi, Fabio Frezzato, Francesca Lo Russo, Enzo Savoia and Arianna Splendore -- The retouching practices of John Linnell: technique, patronage and practice from two works in the Yale Center for British Art / Roxane Sperber -- The cleaning of a solvent-sensitive painting by Jacob Maris / Lidwien Speleers -- The conservation and research of two paintings by Alfred East RA / Michaela Straub.
ISBN
  • 9781909492547
  • 190949254X
OCLC
  • ocn987374573
  • 987374573
  • SCSB-8915132
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library