I
clean and restore pictures - provided that they are oil paintings
and 19th century or later;
so, if you have any grubby Victorians hanging about in your
attic or on your walls,
I can improve them for you. I can arrange for them to be relined,
and for any tears to be repaired;
I will then clean them and restore lost paintwork or bad cracking.
The
portrait shown here is a very small 19th century painting of
the client's great-great grandmother.
It needed to be relined, as the canvas & stretcher were in poor
condition, and the frame was also on its last legs.
Below you can see the portrait at three points in its treatment:
as it was originally (left), after cleaning (right),
and then, below, restored and back in its (repaired) frame.
Cleaning revealed the fact that the paint surface was crazed
in large areas with cracks and tiny islands of paint,
like a dried-up river bed; this is clearly visible in the second
image.
