A Changing Art

This volume gathers papers from BAPCR’s conference A Changing Art, focusing on the complex and varied painting practices of the 19th century. Contributors explore the evolving materials and techniques of the period, as well as historical and contemporary conservation challenges. Through technical studies, archival research, and reconstructions, the volume offers new insights into how 19th-century artists worked-and how conservators today respond to their unique legacy.

Paintings made in the 19th century are an extremely diverse group, and have frequently been found to present particular challenges to the conservator. These papers (which were presented at the British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers’ conference A Changing Art: Nineteenth-Century Painting Practice and Conservation) explore the reasons for the complexity and the changes that took places in the materiality of painting in the period. Both nineteenth-century conservation concerns and present day conservation treatments of nineteenth-century paintings are examined; technical examination, documentary sources and accurate reconstructions all contribute here to a greater understanding of the practices and materials employed by nineteenth-century painters.

Keynote Address: Alteration, restoration and why pictures foam: what conservators can learn from Victorian artists' colourmen Sally Woodcock

Nineteenth Century Restoration in Public Galleries in Britain in the National Portrait Gallery Jacob Simon

Nineteenth-Century Oil Painting Materials and Techniques Research: A Review of Key Findings from Documentary Sources, Results from Reconstructions with Historically Appropriate Materials and Suggestions for Future Research Leslie Carlyle

Delacroix: Mid-Century Modern Master Adele Wright

The Retouching Practices of John Linnell and the Challenges Posed to Conservators: A Case Study of Hanson Toot, View in Dovedale Roxane Sperber

"Oily Drops on the Window Pane" Rosalind Whitehouse

Giovanni Boldini: Technique and Conservation. A Systematic Scientific Study of Forty Paintings and Eight Watercolours Fabio Frezzato, Gianluca Poldi, Enzo Savoia, Arianna Splendore

The Barbizon Paintings at the National Gallery, London: A Technical Survey Gabriella Macaro

Ernst Victor Hareux and the Barbizon Artists Hayley Tomlinson, Sarah Herring, Gabriella Macaro

The Conservation and Research of Two Paintings by Alfred East RA Michaela Straub

'These pitchy pigments from their very nature never harden': Nineteenth-Century Perspective on Premature Cracking in Oil Paintings Nicola Costaras

George Hendrik Breitner at Work: A Joint Perspective on Nineteenth-Century Artistic Practice Nienke Woltman, Suzanne Veldink

The Cleaning of a Solvent Sensitive Painting by Jacob Maris Lidwien Speleers

Observations on Rudolf Swoboda's Painting Technique Nele Bordt, Katy Saunders-Blessley,

Keynote Address: Alteration, restoration and why pictures foam: what conservators can learn from Victorian artists' colourmen 
Sally Woodcock

Nineteenth Century Restoration in Public Galleries in Britain in the National Portrait Gallery 
Jacob Simon

Nineteenth-Century Oil Painting Materials and Techniques Research: A Review of Key Findings from Documentary Sources, Results from Reconstructions with Historically Appropriate Materials and Suggestions for Future Research 
Leslie Carlyle

Delacroix: Mid-Century Modern Master 
Adele Wright

The Retouching Practices of John Linnell and the Challenges Posed to Conservators: A Case Study of Hanson Toot, View in Dovedale 
Roxane Sperber

"Oily Drops on the Window Pane" 
Rosalind Whitehouse

Giovanni Boldini: Technique and Conservation. A Systematic Scientific Study of Forty Paintings and Eight Watercolours 
Fabio Frezzato, Gianluca Poldi, Enzo Savoia, Arianna Splendore

The Barbizon Paintings at the National Gallery, London: A Technical Survey 
Gabriella Macaro

Ernst Victor Hareux and the Barbizon Artists 
Hayley Tomlinson, Sarah Herring, Gabriella Macaro

The Conservation and Research of Two Paintings by Alfred East RA 
Michaela Straub

'These pitchy pigments from their very nature never harden': Nineteenth-Century Perspective on Premature Cracking in Oil Paintings 
Nicola Costaras

George Hendrik Breitner at Work: A Joint Perspective on Nineteenth-Century Artistic Practice 
Nienke Woltman, Suzanne Veldink

The Cleaning of a Solvent Sensitive Painting by Jacob Maris 
Lidwien Speleers

Observations on Rudolf Swoboda's Painting Technique 
Nele Bordt, Katy Saunders-Blessley

• Edited by Nicola Costaras
• Edited by Kate Lowry
• Edited by Helen Glanville
• Edited by Pippa Balch
• Edited by Victoria Sutcliffe
• Edited by Polly Saltmarsh