This volume is the seventh in this biennial series which presents the recent research into the conservation, structure, materials, history etc. of paintings by past and present staff and students (including early career interns) of the Hamilton Kerr Institute.
The articles in the 2018 Bulletin focus on works of art and painting materials from a wide range of dates, collections, private owners and social contexts, and are ordered roughly chronologically.
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Preface
The Battel Hall Retable: history, technique and conservation
Michaela Straub and Lucy Wrapson
Nicholas Hilliard as a painter ‘in greate’
Sarah Bayliss
Some preliminary observations on pigments, their costs and use in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century middling painted interiors: a regional perspective from Suffolk
Andrea Kirkham
John Donne’s metaphysical portrait
Spike Bucklow
Lead white: how variations in the crystalline ratios influence the optical and handling properties of oil paint
Camille Polkownik
Reattributing a painting through technical study: Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness by Marcantonio Franceschini
Amiel Clarke and Christine Braybrook
Uncovering a lost leviathan: new insights and discoveries during treatment of Hendrick van Anthonissen’s View of Scheveningen Sands
Shan Kuang
Exploring Gainsborough Dupont’s role in Thomas Gainsborough’s studio through the Portrait of Mrs. Audley
Kari Rayner
The most ‘azure blue’: the youth and old age of ultramarine
Sally Woodcock and Emma Jansson
David Parr House: a technical study of the materials and techniques of the wall paintings
Emma Jansson and Camille Polkownik
