Restoration · Paintings
A yellowed varnish, a tear in the canvas, a water stain. Most damage to paintings looks more dramatic than it is — provided a specialist treats it. It becomes dramatic when it is treated by someone who is not.
Water damage to a carved mirror frame — documented from the findings through the quotation to the final report for the insurer.
Read the post →Decades of soot, nicotine and yellowed varnish settle over the paint like a yellow veil. We take these layers off under control — millimetre by millimetre, checking the findings constantly. What appears underneath surprises many owners: the actual colours of their picture.
Losses are filled, primed and retouched in a reversible technique — so that a later conservator can identify our work and undo it. That is not caution, it is professional ethics.
Tears in the canvas, deformations, loose stretchers: we stabilise the support before treating the paint layer.
In the workshop or at your place; a first assessment from photographs beforehand is fine too.
Binding — for your insurer too.
With photographic documentation of every stage.
With transport and hanging if required.
Water damage in storage, damage in transit, a picture that has come off the wall. When art is damaged, owners and insurers need the same thing — a sound assessment of what is damaged, what the repair will cost and what makes economic sense.
At the object, with photographic documentation.
Itemised so it can be followed.
In the form insurers expect.
Once approved — all from one workshop, with nothing lost between the report and the bench.
Insurers and brokers who need a professional assessment. Private clients and collectors after damage. Companies, law firms and hotels with art on the premises. Museums and galleries working with loans.
That depends on the size, the condition and the work involved — there is no serious figure before we have seen the painting. After that you receive a binding quotation. First assessments from photographs are without obligation and free of charge.
Often, yes. The value of a family portrait is not measured by an auction result. We will tell you honestly how the work involved stands in relation to the piece.
Where the damage is insured, often — we produce the condition reports and quotations required and we know what insurers ask for.
Front and back, the damage in close-up.