This volume is the eighth 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.
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Preface
‘They are so true to life and Nature’: the technique and treatment of Jan van Kessel the Elder’s Insects
Anna Don
Prussian blue: limitations associated with the analysis of early synthetic pigments and their extenders
Camille Polkownik and Iris Buisman
The Entombment Flanked by Saint Barbara and Saint Catherine of Alexandria: the materials and techniques of a c.1480–1530 Spanish banco
Molly Hughes- Hallett
Kingston Lacy’s Omnia Vanitas: retracing a Titian provenance through technical study
Alice Tavares- Silva
Unnoticed: diverse uses of starch in paintings
Maria Carolina Pena Marino
Cracking, reconstructing and conserving Jan van der Heyden’s ‘art secret’
Jae Youn Chang
Exploring the work of Sir Gerald Festus Kelly PRA (1879-1972), ‘the most reliable portrait painter of his time’
Katherine Waldron
A picture tells a thousand words: the effects of human perception on imaging in conservation and the relevance of consistency and defined parameters
Christine Braybrook and Chris Titmus
Technical Forms of Procedure’ in the Royal Academy and Roberson archives: two sides of the same picture
Anna Don and Sally Woodcock
