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This miniature was of great sentimental importance to our client. We are glad to see it returned to its best condition.

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2023-03-31

Goodbye stormy skies! This painting looks a lot more tranquil following conservation treatments in our studio.

 

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2022-10-10

This painting had perishing varnish, areas of flaking paint & a tear. Our team performed treatments to resolve these and stabilise the piece. The original colours are shunning.

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2021-06-12

Retouching the losses on this oil painting is going well - for lighter colours this needs to be completed gradually, building the layers up so the retouched area blends seamlessly with the original paint

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2020-05-20

Today’s is X for X ray. Imaging of Jacob Jordeans’ The Holy Family in our collection reveals the infant Jesus holding a goldfinch in a previous version of the composition Image © Southampton Cultural Services

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2020-05-14

Delighted with this restoration, here's the before & after for multiple large tear repairs as part of an insurance claim. It was a pleasure to deliver it back to our very pleased client last week!

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2019-11-12

Interesting collection of paintings in recently, many required cleaning & varnish removal. Here's a selection - fantastic to see the difference we're making!

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2019-10-24

A varnish is often applied as a protective coating. The key to removing incompatible varnishes on a is to ensure the solvent does no harm to the original paint layers.

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2019-06-10

Here's a recent tear repair, showing original damage, thread by thread repair with realigned canvas fibres & after retouching is complete for areas of paint loss

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2019-06-07

We are so excited to be testing the new Digital Microscope (VHX-6000 Series) from Keyence! This instrument produces very sharp images, allowing us to better examine and document extremely small details.

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2019-02-16