KATHERINE ARA

PAINTINGS CONSERVATION & RESTORATION

Accredited conservation services, est. 1997

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The Studio takes a sensitive and critical approach to paintings conservation and restoration, practicing minimal intervention to restore the balance and integrity of each painting. The Studio is secure with a controlled environment, and is comprehensively equipped to accommodate most easel paintings.

 

Katherine has worked on Italian and Netherlandish Old Masters, 18th century British painters and Modern Masters. Some examples, illustrated in the website gallery, include Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Younger, Gerard David, Hans Holbein, Titian, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, and Salvador Dalí.

 

Full written and photographic documentation of the treatment process is provided for each painting. Technical analysis and art-historical research is carried out as required in order to inform the treatment, drawing on a broad network of expertise for dendrochronology, technical imaging, scientific analysis, and art historical investigation. Arrangements can be made for painting analysis, framing, art handling and shipping/transportation. The Studio also provides condition reports for paintings and advice prior to acquisition.

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HOLLAND PARK

LONDON, W11

TEL +44 (0)20 7792 8338

studio@katherineara.com

'Lucretia', Lucas Cranach the Younger

Before Treatment

After Cleaning

After Treatment

Detail Before Treatment

Detail After Cleaning

Detail After Treatment

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'The Madonna of the Cherries', Quinten Massys

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'Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist', Bartolomeo Schedoni

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After Treatment

Before Treatment, Raking Light

After Treatment, Raking Light

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'Madonna of the Milk Soup', Gerard David

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After Treatment

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'The Last Supper', Pieter Jansz. Pourbus

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After Filling

After Treatment

Detail Before Treatment

Detail After Filling

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‘John the Baptist Preaching to the Multitude’, Pieter Brueghel the Younger

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After Cleaning

After Treatment

Detail Before Treatment

Detail After Cleaning

Detail After Treatment

Detail Before Treatment

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Detail After Treatment

Detail Digital Infrared Image

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'Dives and Lazarus’, Marten de Vos. After Treatment

Framed After Treatment

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'The Parable of Dives and Lazarus', Jacopo Bassano. After Treatment

Framed After Treatment

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'David with the Head of Goliath', Pier Francesco Mola

Before Treatment

During Cleaning

After Removal of Later Additions, Strip Lining, Loose Lining and Filling

After Treatment

Detail Before Treatment

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‘Portrait of Clarice Strozzi’, Follower of Titian. After Treatment

Framed After Treatment

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'Portrait of Costanza Sforza', Lavinia Fontana

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After Treatment

Detail Before Treatment

Detail After Cleaning

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Framed After Treatment

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'Portrait of Elizabeth I', Steven van Herwijk. After Treatment

Framed After Treatment

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'Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham', Robert Peake and Studio

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After Filling

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'Portrait of Lady Thornhagh', William Larkin

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After Treatment

Detail Before Treatment

Detail After Cleaning

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Detail During Retouching

Detail During Retouching

Detail During Retouching

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'A River Landscape with Figures Crossing to the Shore on a Cattle Ferry, with Washerwomen on the Bank', Salomon van Ruysdael. After Treatment

Framed After Treatment

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'Portrait of Mary Villiers, Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, with her children Esmé and Mary', John Michael Wright

Before Treatment

After Cleaning and Relining

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John Michael Wright, 'Portrait of Mary Elizabeth Browne'

After Treatment, Framed

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'Portrait of Sir John Stepney', Sir Joshua Reynolds. The portrait now hangs at Llanelly House in Wales, Sir John's family home.

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'Portrait of William Pearce', Thomas Gainsborough

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‘Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger’, Hans Holbein

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After Cleaning

After Filling

After Treatment

Infrared Photograph

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'Portrait of Lady Alice More', Studio of Hans Holbein

Before Treatment

After Cleaning

After Treatment

Digital Infrared Photograph (showing an underlying portrait of Erasmus)

X-radiograph

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'Portrait of a Man, once inscribed Francis Bacon', Attributed to Paulus Moreelse

Before Treatment. Whilst making cleaning tests, it was discovered that the painting had been considerably repainted in the recent past; a portrait of an unknown man had been transformed into that of the seventeenth century philosopher Francis Bacon.

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After Treatment

Detail Before Treatment

Detail After Filling

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'Portrait of Madeleine of France', Jean Clouet

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After Filling

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'Fortuna; Fama; Oblivio; and Amore: The Triumph of Love', Edward Burne Jones. After Treatment

Framed After Treatment

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'Sweet Summer', John William Waterhouse. After Treatment

Framed After Treatment

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'Holywood', Paul Henry

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'Crisalida (Femme a la Tete aux Ailes)', Salvador Dali. After Treatment

After Treatment, Transmitted Light

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'Madonna Enthroned with the Christ Child', Spanish School, 13th century. After Treatment

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