Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin number 7, 2018

Edited by Lucy Wrapson Edited by Adèle Wright Edited by Spike Bucklow Edited by Christine Braybrook

Book cover: Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin number 7, 2018

Extent: 134 pages

Publisher: Archetype Publications Ltd 

Subjects: Art & Art History

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2018)

ISBN: 9781909492660

8.27 x 11.69 inches

Price: $90.00

In stock

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.


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.

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,

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

  • Edited by Lucy Wrapson
  • Edited by Adèle Wright
  • Edited by Spike Bucklow
  • Edited by Christine Braybrook