Posts
Antique Furniture
- Antique desk restoration: reviving writing slopes & bureau care
- Antique furniture: how to prevent accidental damage
- Antique furniture: wood types and risks following water damage
- Caring for high value upholstery: professional cleaning and damage prevention
- Chair design history: aging an antique chair by style and leg shape
- Chest of drawers restoration: reviving antique bureaus and dressers
- Conservation curiosities: Boulle furniture
- Grandfather clock restoration: pendulums, cases & faces
- Historic comfort: antique bed restoration
- Historic handles: analysing brassware to establish furniture age, style and value
- How to identify antique furniture from Tudor and baroque to mid-century modern
- Identifying Chippendale furniture: understanding the influence & design style of Thomas Chippendale
- Japanese lacquerware: the techniques and restoration of traditional Asian antiques
- Marquetry restoration: reassembling intricate wooden designs
- Mother of Pearl: the history and restoration of iridescent decoration
- Post-war furniture revival: mid century modern care & period appropriate restoration
- Rattan restoration: reviving cane furniture
- Recline in style: the history, upholstery and restoration of antique sofas
- Rococo revival: restoring paintings, objects and interiors of the late baroque
- Sitting pretty: the history and restoration of antique chairs
- Sourcing era-appropriate repairs: historically accurate furniture restoration
- Traditional furniture finishes: historically accurate polish, wax and stains
- Traditional furniture restoration: materials, treatments and finishes
- Trinket boxes and treasure chests: restoring decorative receptacles
- Veneer variations: identifying antique furniture wood types
Artists
- A clear view: British landscape painting restoration
- Banksy on paper: protecting contemporary prints
- Baroque blemishes: restoring 18th century portraits
- Bountiful birds: restoring driftwood bird sculptures by Guy Taplin
- Curious cat prints and ceramics: the life and art of Louis Wain
- Famous artists from Cornwall
- Famous artists from Cumbria
- Famous artists from Kent
- Famous artists from North East England
- Famous artists from Scotland
- Famous artists from The Cotswolds
- From Regency to Victorian: 19th century portrait styles & restoration
- Hyperrealism restoration: caring for photorealistic contemporary paintings
- Identifying Chippendale furniture: understanding the influence & design style of Thomas Chippendale
- Japanese woodblock conservation: specialist methods for distinctive prints
- Lace collars & cavaliers: 17th century portrait conservation
- More than a vase of flowers: still life painting restoration & interpretation
- One hundred and one art history facts
- Out of the shadows: chiaroscuro painting restoration
- Palladian halls: restoring Robert Adam interiors
- Pop art preservation: restoring Warhol prints
- Rococo revival: restoring paintings, objects and interiors of the late baroque
- Saddle up: the history and restoration of horses in art
- Setting sail: a voyage of nautical painting conservation
- Sitting pretty: the history and restoration of antique chairs
- The grand genre: classical history painting restoration
Artwork Analysis
- Does my painting have hidden features?
- Does the price of an artwork reflect restoration costs?
- Exploring the history of your painting with a technical examination report
- Fluorescent discoveries: a Talbot Hughes painting hidden beneath coal fire contamination
- Out of the shadows: chiaroscuro painting restoration
- Preserving authenticity: how to protect signatures and autographed artworks
- Professional painting assessment: condition reports
- Professional painting assessment: cross section analysis
- Professional painting assessment: pigment analysis
- Professional painting assessment: technical photography
Case Studies
- £35M of artwork saved following fire
- 5 acid stained artwork restorations
- 8 amazing foxing before and after examples
- A guide to professional valuations for art collections
- A New Hope: the restoration of beloved Star Wars poster
- A remarkable restoration for Mr Stoddart’s family painting
- A view of Segovia: restoring a Mary Cameron landscape
- Ackergill Tower restoration saves 270 paintings
- Art and collectible wealth reaches $1.74 trillion
- Banksy’s early artworks in Glasgow restored live
- Bringing bright skies back to a 19th century mural at Westonbirt School
- British art dealers frustrated by new money laundering rules
- Cartography conservation: restoring maps and historic geography
- Case Study: 19th Century Chess Board Restoration
- Case Study: clay elephant
- Case Study: how mishandling an oil painting caused a 15 inch tear
- Case Study: One vintage ashtray in ten broken parts
- Case study: repairing a pottery statue smashed into 13 pieces
- Case Study: restoring a 1940 Army Beret
- Case Study: Restoring a damaged bird sculpture
- Case Study: the ceramic dog and rabbit
- Ceramic repair case study: broken legs and a lost lamb
- Complex claims – when our expertise extends beyond restoration
- Conservation funding: achieving the restoration of culturally significant artworks
- Environmental threats to artwork and fine furniture
- Favourite restorations of 2021
- Fire damaged specialist contents – looking beyond the obvious damage
- Flood damage at St. Peters Church: restoring ecclesiastical collections following a disaster
- Fluorescent discoveries: a Talbot Hughes painting hidden beneath coal fire contamination
- From chess sets to trunks: our most unusual restorations
- How the way artwork is created may cause issues in the future
- How to act when artworks are damaged in transit
- How to care for wooden objects
- How to restore pastel drawings
- Iridescent artefacts: preserving Syrian Glass for The Paisley Museum & Art Gallery
- Masonic tracing board restoration: protecting and preserving Freemason art
- Mater Admirabilis restoration: caring for Catholic school art
- Meet our conservator Martha
- Meet our easel paintings conservator Monica
- Meet our frames conservator Wiktor
- Oil painting or oleograph?– how to tell the difference
- Pastels and chalks: the conservation of delicate artworks on paper
- Protecting glass: a versatile and fragile material
- Restoration beyond ability leading to devaluing of artworks
- Restoration of a papier-mâché tiger
- Restoration stories: the themes of a Dutch landscape
- Restoration stories: Tudor tyrant Thomas Howard
- Restoring a remarkable portrait for St. Mary’s Church in Wreay, Cumbria
- Restoring Mr Peers’ ancestral painting
- Restoring Mrs Pownall’s water damaged painting
- Reviving 15th century saints: how our conservator cleaned an oil on panel with an innovative solution
- Righting restoration wrongs: how a tear repair should actually look
- Stratfield Saye – Home of the Duke of Wellington
- Teapot restoration and the hidden value of ceramics
- The Grand Canal looking east from the Carità towards the Bacino (after Canaletto)
- The history and restoration of Chinese panel art
- The Night Watch: restoring a bitumen damaged copy of Rembrandt’s masterpiece
- The perils and pitfalls of underinsured artworks
- The restoration of a World War Two map
- Water damaged Persian rug restoration
- Water-damaged artworks – how the insurer and supply chain can reduce claim costs
- Welcome to the Fine Art Restoration Company’s London Studio
- What does the future hold for the art industry after coronavirus
- What to do when artworks are damaged in transit
- Wooden games: restoring traditional pastimes
Ceramics
- Alabaster effigies: the restoration and care of gypsum sculptures
- Antique enamelware: caring for enamel porcelain, miniatures and more
- Baked earth: terracotta care and professional restoration
- Beguiling tiles: restoring mosaics and ceramic tile art
- Bountiful birds: restoring driftwood bird sculptures by Guy Taplin
- Bountiful brew: analysing the age and value of teacups and teapots
- Case Study: 19th Century Chess Board Restoration
- Case Study: clay elephant
- Case Study: One vintage ashtray in ten broken parts
- Case Study: the ceramic dog and rabbit
- Ceramic repair case study: broken legs and a lost lamb
- Conservation curiosities: Japanese netsuke
- Conservation curiosities: the jardinière
- Doll restoration: the history and preservation of childhood companions
- Ethical ivory restoration and conservation
- Fanciful figurines: from Meissen to Lladró
- From Maiolica to William Morris: glazed pottery history, styles & restoration
- Golden imperfections: professional kintsugi restoration
- Holy sculptures: the restoration and care of Christian statues
- Identifying Wedgwood: maker’s marks and dates
- Iridescent artefacts: preserving Syrian Glass for The Paisley Museum & Art Gallery
- Is it Ming? The value, care and restoration of Chinese porcelain
- Jasperware, creamware and black basalt: protecting Wedgwood ceramics
- Marble marvels: the care and restoration of marble sculptures
- Martin Brothers stoneware conservation: restoring whimsical creatures and wally birds
- Meissen’s white gold: protecting and restoring valuable porcelain
- Porcelain antique valuation: the maker’s marks, colours and styles of European ceramics
- Preventing shattered antiques: how to pack, store and safely transport ceramics
- Protecting glass: a versatile and fragile material
- Restoration Stories: a Kähler Keramik collection
- Restoration stories: a plate to remember
- Restoration stories: damaged in a zeppelin raid
- Rococo revival: restoring paintings, objects and interiors of the late baroque
- Stone surfaces: professional granite and marble restoration
- Teapot restoration and the hidden value of ceramics
- The restoration process for ceramics
- The risks facing open air sculptures in the UK
- Welcome to New Canton: the history and restoration of Bow Porcelain
Collection Care
- Art gallery services: professional care, advice and treatments for commercial and specialist art galleries
- Auction houses: professional conservation as a sales tool
- Church artwork conservation services: care and preservation for ecclesiastical collections
- Conservation architects: how we can help
- Conservation funding: achieving the restoration of culturally significant artworks
- Flood damage at St. Peters Church: restoring ecclesiastical collections following a disaster
- Historic house conservation: professional services for culturally important collections & estates
- Hotel artwork collections: specialist restoration, framing and maintenance services
- Illustrated interiors: the history and restoration of antique wallpaper
- Iridescent artefacts: preserving Syrian Glass for The Paisley Museum & Art Gallery
- Lifestyle management consultants: conservation advice and fine art restoration services
- Mater Admirabilis restoration: caring for Catholic school art
- Preserving military collections: professional restoration & protective displays
- Protecting and preserving school collections
- Restoring a remarkable portrait for St. Mary’s Church in Wreay, Cumbria
- Reviving Rubens: restoring altarpiece paintings for Farnborough Abbey
- The restoration of a Victorian mural at Westonbirt School: a case study for conservation architects
Contemporary Art
- Banksy on paper: protecting contemporary prints
- City sculpture trail restoration: bringing life back to unique street art
- Free flowing paintings: how to save acrylic pour art
- Hyperrealism restoration: caring for photorealistic contemporary paintings
- Inadequately prepped paintings: how to save a failing artwork
- Non-fungible tokens & the digital future of art conservation
- Pop art preservation: restoring Warhol prints
- Protection and preservation of street art
- Restoration stories: saving the artistic legacy of Barrie Hesketh
Cracked flaking paintings
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Digital Restoration
Discoloured paintings
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Education & Training
- 2024 Internships at Fine Art Restoration Company
- Botched art restorations: how would a professional restore these famous disasters?
- Conservation education: hosting a Modular Cleaning Programme workshop
- Different routes into art restoration: meet our conservation interns Robert, Ruth and Tom
- Meet our easel paintings conservator Hayley
- Meet our easel paintings conservator Monica
- Meet our frames conservator Wiktor
- Modular cleaning programme workshop
- Preserving careers in conservation: how can our interns benefit your restoration project?
- The path to becoming a conservator and an internship experience
- Welcome to the Fine Art Restoration Company’s London Studio
Frames
- Can frame quality affect watercolours?
- Caring for decorative gilded frames
- Circular art: framing tondo paintings
- Enhance your framing: washlines and bespoke mount details
- Framing large and heavy artworks or specialist items: what to consider
- Gilded reflections: antique mirror frame restoration & care
- Is your frame damaging your artwork?
- Meet our frames conservator Wiktor
- Protecting artworks with glazing
Gilding
Guides and Advice
- 2024 Internships at Fine Art Restoration Company
- 5 acid stained artwork restorations
- 8 amazing foxing before and after examples
- A clear view: British landscape painting restoration
- A view of Segovia: restoring a Mary Cameron landscape
- Alabaster effigies: the restoration and care of gypsum sculptures
- Ancestral admiration: the restoration of historic Chinese portraits
- Antique desk restoration: reviving writing slopes & bureau care
- Antique enamelware: caring for enamel porcelain, miniatures and more
- Antique furniture: how to prevent accidental damage
- Art deco restoration: reviving artwork & designs from the roaring twenties
- Art gallery services: professional care, advice and treatments for commercial and specialist art galleries
- Auction houses: professional conservation as a sales tool
- Baked earth: terracotta care and professional restoration
- Banksy on paper: protecting contemporary prints
- Baroque blemishes: restoring 18th century portraits
- Beguiling tiles: restoring mosaics and ceramic tile art
- Botched art restorations: how would a professional restore these famous disasters?
- Bountiful birds: restoring driftwood bird sculptures by Guy Taplin
- Bountiful brew: analysing the age and value of teacups and teapots
- Bronze sculpture restoration: history, craftsmanship & conservation care
- Can a cracked oil painting be repaired?
- Can a previously restored painting be restored again?
- Can signatures be restored? The ethics of autograph and artist name conservation
- Can soup damage a painting?
- Can watercolour paintings be restored?
- Can you fix a ripped oil painting?
- Can you hang an oil painting in sunlight?
- Can you paint over varnished paintings?
- Caring for antique textiles
- Caring for decorative gilded frames
- Caring for high value upholstery: professional cleaning and damage prevention
- Caring for metal antiques and sculptures
- Case Study: how mishandling an oil painting caused a 15 inch tear
- Case Study: restoring a 1940 Army Beret
- Cavaliers and baroque beauties: 17th century artists in England
- Chair design history: aging an antique chair by style and leg shape
- Charming carpets: antique and contemporary rug care
- Chest of drawers restoration: reviving antique bureaus and dressers
- Childhood on canvas: the history, themes and restoration of child portraiture
- Church artwork conservation services: care and preservation for ecclesiastical collections
- Cinema memorabilia rescue: how to save damaged posters and lobby cards
- Circular art: framing tondo paintings
- City sculpture trail restoration: bringing life back to unique street art
- Cleaning a watercolour painting
- Common damage to watercolour paintings
- Common issues with modern and contemporary paintings
- Common problems that affect oil paintings
- Conservation architects: how we can help
- Conservation curiosities: antique busts
- Conservation curiosities: Boulle furniture
- Conservation curiosities: dummy boards
- Conservation curiosities: embroidery samplers
- Conservation curiosities: Japanese netsuke
- Conservation curiosities: snuff box art
- Conservation curiosities: the jardinière
- Conservation education: hosting a Modular Cleaning Programme workshop
- Conservation funding: achieving the restoration of culturally significant artworks
- Conservation funding: historic buildings and their collections
- Cryptic creatures: the symbolism of animals in art
- Curious cat prints and ceramics: the life and art of Louis Wain
- Different routes into art restoration: meet our conservation interns Robert, Ruth and Tom
- Divine signs: the symbolism of saints in Christian art
- Does my painting have hidden features?
- Does the price of an artwork reflect restoration costs?
- Doll restoration: the history and preservation of childhood companions
- Electronic preservation: digital restoration of important photographs
- Enhance your framing: washlines and bespoke mount details
- Enlightenment and empire: Georgian artists in England
- Ethical ivory restoration and conservation
- Exploring the history of your painting with a technical examination report
- Faces of the Tudor period: 16th century artists in England
- Famous artists from Cornwall
- Famous artists from Cumbria
- Famous artists from Kent
- Famous artists from North East England
- Famous artists from Scotland
- Famous artists from The Cotswolds
- Famous artists from Wales
- Fanciful figurines: from Meissen to Lladró
- Fascinating flora: botanical illustration care & restoration
- Favourite restorations of 2020
- Favourite restorations of 2021
- Favourite restorations of 2022
- Favourite restorations of 2023
- Flaking, cupping and tenting: common issues with an oil painting’s paint layer
- Flood damage at St. Peters Church: restoring ecclesiastical collections following a disaster
- Fluorescent discoveries: a Talbot Hughes painting hidden beneath coal fire contamination
- Forty More Art History Facts
- Framing large and heavy artworks or specialist items: what to consider
- Free flowing paintings: how to save acrylic pour art
- From Maiolica to William Morris: glazed pottery history, styles & restoration
- From Regency to Victorian: 19th century portrait styles & restoration
- Gilded reflections: antique mirror frame restoration & care
- Glorious graphite: the history and restoration of pencil drawings
- Golden imperfections: professional kintsugi restoration
- Grandfather clock restoration: pendulums, cases & faces
- Heaven sent: angels in art history
- Heraldic remembrance: funerary hatchment restoration
- Historic comfort: antique bed restoration
- Historic handles: analysing brassware to establish furniture age, style and value
- Historic house conservation: professional services for culturally important collections & estates
- Holy sculptures: the restoration and care of Christian statues
- Hotel artwork collections: specialist restoration, framing and maintenance services
- How do I get rid of foxing?
- How do you clean oil paintings at home?
- How old is my oil painting? Spotting forgeries and modern copies
- How to identify antique furniture from Tudor and baroque to mid-century modern
- How to look after your painting
- How to protect paintings from dust
- How to protect your watercolour painting
- How to re-mould missing parts of a picture frame
- How to remove spillages and stains on oil paintings
- How to restore oil paintings on copper
- How to restore your watercolour: the treatments
- How to save a flood damaged painting
- How to treat foxing on a watercolour
- How we saved a collection of etchings
- Hyperrealism restoration: caring for photorealistic contemporary paintings
- Identifying Chippendale furniture: understanding the influence & design style of Thomas Chippendale
- Identifying Wedgwood: maker’s marks and dates
- Illustrated interiors: the history and restoration of antique wallpaper
- Inadequately prepped paintings: how to save a failing artwork
- Inscriptions on oil paintings: uncovering & preserving text details
- Iridescent artefacts: preserving Syrian Glass for The Paisley Museum & Art Gallery
- Is it Ming? The value, care and restoration of Chinese porcelain
- Is your frame damaging your artwork?
- Japanese lacquerware: the techniques and restoration of traditional Asian antiques
- Jasperware, creamware and black basalt: protecting Wedgwood ceramics
- Lace collars & cavaliers: 17th century portrait conservation
- Lifestyle management consultants: conservation advice and fine art restoration services
- Lithograph longevity: protecting and restoring lithographic prints
- Looking after taxidermy: how to protect natural history
- Marble marvels: the care and restoration of marble sculptures
- Marquetry restoration: reassembling intricate wooden designs
- Martin Brothers stoneware conservation: restoring whimsical creatures and wally birds
- Mary Magdalene with an Ointment Jar: the history and restoration of a 16th century Netherlandish panel
- Masonic tracing board restoration: protecting and preserving Freemason art
- Mater Admirabilis restoration: caring for Catholic school art
- Meet our easel paintings conservator Hayley
- Meet our frames conservator Wiktor
- Meissen’s white gold: protecting and restoring valuable porcelain
- Memorabilia and collectibles – are they covered by insurance?
- Mesmerising mezzotints: the restoration & safe display of antique prints
- Midas touch: caring for gold leaf decoration
- Minimising mould risk for artworks
- Modular cleaning programme workshop
- More than a vase of flowers: still life painting restoration & interpretation
- Mother of Pearl: the history and restoration of iridescent decoration
- Mould and infestations in watercolour paintings
- Nature’s bounty: the symbolism of fruit in art
- Non-fungible tokens & the digital future of art conservation
- One hundred and one art history facts
- Online art auctions: what to look for when you buy online
- Ormolu opulence: the history, care and restoration of gilt metal
- Out of the shadows: chiaroscuro painting restoration
- Palladian halls: restoring Robert Adam interiors
- Paper in peril: restoring water damage
- Papier-mâché preservation: restoring unconventional artworks
- Photography restoration: protecting and reviving moments from the past
- Pop art preservation: restoring Warhol prints
- Porcelain antique valuation: the maker’s marks, colours and styles of European ceramics
- Post-war furniture revival: mid century modern care & period appropriate restoration
- Preserving authenticity: how to protect signatures and autographed artworks
- Preserving careers in conservation: how can our interns benefit your restoration project?
- Preserving military collections: professional restoration & protective displays
- Preserving posters: conservation lining options
- Preventing shattered antiques: how to pack, store and safely transport ceramics
- Professional painting assessment: condition reports
- Professional painting assessment: cross section analysis
- Professional painting assessment: pigment analysis
- Professional painting assessment: technical photography
- Protecting a painting from sunlight
- Protecting and preserving school collections
- Protecting artworks with glazing
- Protecting paintings on panel: reducing risks and repairs
- Protection and preservation of street art
- Rattan restoration: reviving cane furniture
- Recline in style: the history, upholstery and restoration of antique sofas
- Restoration stories: a gift from the resistance
- Restoration Stories: a Kähler Keramik collection
- Restoration stories: a plate to remember
- Restoration stories: damaged in a zeppelin raid
- Restoration stories: revealing a Dean Cornwell illustration
- Restoration stories: saving the artistic legacy of Barrie Hesketh
- Restoration stories: the themes of a Dutch landscape
- Restoration stories: Tudor tyrant Thomas Howard
- Restoring a remarkable portrait for St. Mary’s Church in Wreay, Cumbria
- Restoring a water damaged oil painting
- Reviving 15th century saints: how our conservator cleaned an oil on panel with an innovative solution
- Reviving Rubens: restoring altarpiece paintings for Farnborough Abbey
- Rococo revival: restoring paintings, objects and interiors of the late baroque
- Saddle up: the history and restoration of horses in art
- Satire and Social Class: exploring secular wall paintings of the middle ages with Maya Sajnani
- Scorched: protecting oil paintings after a fire
- Setting sail: a voyage of nautical painting conservation
- Shin-hanga: restoring woodblock prints of the early 20th century
- Should paintings be restored?
- Signs of water damage on an oil painting
- Sitting pretty: the history and restoration of antique chairs
- Six common causes of frame restoration
- Society on canvas: restoring genre paintings of the Dutch Golden Age
- Soot and sepia: the preservation of ink drawings
- Sourcing era-appropriate repairs: historically accurate furniture restoration
- Stone surfaces: professional granite and marble restoration
- The 4 steps to assessing an oil painting
- The grand genre: classical history painting restoration
- The Grand Tour: restoring the painted souvenirs of 18th century Venice and beyond
- The history and restoration of Chinese panel art
- The Night Watch: restoring a bitumen damaged copy of Rembrandt’s masterpiece
- The path to becoming a conservator and an internship experience
- The perils of inadequate storage for artworks
- The restoration of a Victorian mural at Westonbirt School: a case study for conservation architects
- The restoration process for ceramics
- The risks facing open air sculptures in the UK
- Tips to safely store a painting before restoration
- Torn paper restoration
- Traditional furniture finishes: historically accurate polish, wax and stains
- Traditional furniture restoration: materials, treatments and finishes
- Trinket boxes and treasure chests: restoring decorative receptacles
- Trois crayons: protecting white, black and sanguine chalk
- Tulip mania and the symbolism of flowers in art
- Twenty Festive Art History Facts
- Veneer variations: identifying antique furniture wood types
- Water damaged Persian rug restoration
- Waxwork wonders: restoring and preserving unique wax sculptures
- Welcome to New Canton: the history and restoration of Bow Porcelain
- What is painting restoration?
- What to do if your artworks are fire damaged
- What to do if your oil painting becomes water-damaged
- Why do my paintings look dull?
- Will surface cleaning damage my oil painting?
- Wonderful watercolours: the history, care and restoration of paintings on paper
- Wooden games: restoring traditional pastimes
History Of Art
- A clear view: British landscape painting restoration
- Ancestral admiration: the restoration of historic Chinese portraits
- Art deco restoration: reviving artwork & designs from the roaring twenties
- Baked earth: terracotta care and professional restoration
- Baroque blemishes: restoring 18th century portraits
- Botched art restorations: how would a professional restore these famous disasters?
- Bountiful brew: analysing the age and value of teacups and teapots
- Bringing bright skies back to a 19th century mural at Westonbirt School
- Cavaliers and baroque beauties: 17th century artists in England
- Childhood on canvas: the history, themes and restoration of child portraiture
- Conservation curiosities: dummy boards
- Conservation curiosities: snuff box art
- Conservation curiosities: the jardinière
- Curious cat prints and ceramics: the life and art of Louis Wain
- Divine signs: the symbolism of saints in Christian art
- Doll restoration: the history and preservation of childhood companions
- Enlightenment and empire: Georgian artists in England
- Faces of the Tudor period: 16th century artists in England
- Famous artists from Cornwall
- Famous artists from Cumbria
- Famous artists from Kent
- Famous artists from North East England
- Famous artists from Scotland
- Famous artists from The Cotswolds
- Fluorescent discoveries: a Talbot Hughes painting hidden beneath coal fire contamination
- Forty More Art History Facts
- From Maiolica to William Morris: glazed pottery history, styles & restoration
- From Regency to Victorian: 19th century portrait styles & restoration
- Heaven sent: angels in art history
- Heraldic remembrance: funerary hatchment restoration
- Hyperrealism restoration: caring for photorealistic contemporary paintings
- Identifying Wedgwood: maker’s marks and dates
- Illustrated interiors: the history and restoration of antique wallpaper
- Inadequately prepped paintings: how to save a failing artwork
- Inscriptions on oil paintings: uncovering & preserving text details
- Iridescent artefacts: preserving Syrian Glass for The Paisley Museum & Art Gallery
- Japanese woodblock conservation: specialist methods for distinctive prints
- Jasperware, creamware and black basalt: protecting Wedgwood ceramics
- Lace collars & cavaliers: 17th century portrait conservation
- Marble marvels: the care and restoration of marble sculptures
- Martin Brothers stoneware conservation: restoring whimsical creatures and wally birds
- Mary Magdalene with an Ointment Jar: the history and restoration of a 16th century Netherlandish panel
- Masonic tracing board restoration: protecting and preserving Freemason art
- Mater Admirabilis restoration: caring for Catholic school art
- Mesmerising mezzotints: the restoration & safe display of antique prints
- More than a vase of flowers: still life painting restoration & interpretation
- Nature’s bounty: the symbolism of fruit in art
- One hundred and one art history facts
- Ormolu opulence: the history, care and restoration of gilt metal
- Palladian halls: restoring Robert Adam interiors
- Papier-mâché preservation: restoring unconventional artworks
- Photography restoration: protecting and reviving moments from the past
- Pop art preservation: restoring Warhol prints
- Protecting paintings on panel: reducing risks and repairs
- Restoration stories: a gift from the resistance
- Restoration stories: damaged in a zeppelin raid
- Restoration stories: saving the artistic legacy of Barrie Hesketh
- Restoration stories: the themes of a Dutch landscape
- Restoration stories: Tudor tyrant Thomas Howard
- Reviving 15th century saints: how our conservator cleaned an oil on panel with an innovative solution
- Rococo revival: restoring paintings, objects and interiors of the late baroque
- Saddle up: the history and restoration of horses in art
- Satire and Social Class: exploring secular wall paintings of the middle ages with Maya Sajnani
- Setting sail: a voyage of nautical painting conservation
- Shin-hanga: restoring woodblock prints of the early 20th century
- Society on canvas: restoring genre paintings of the Dutch Golden Age
- Soot and sepia: the preservation of ink drawings
- The grand genre: classical history painting restoration
- The Grand Tour: restoring the painted souvenirs of 18th century Venice and beyond
- The history and restoration of Chinese panel art
- The Night Watch: restoring a bitumen damaged copy of Rembrandt’s masterpiece
- Trinket boxes and treasure chests: restoring decorative receptacles
- Trois crayons: protecting white, black and sanguine chalk
- Tulip mania and the symbolism of flowers in art
- Twenty Festive Art History Facts
- Waxwork wonders: restoring and preserving unique wax sculptures
- Welcome to New Canton: the history and restoration of Bow Porcelain
Latest News
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- 10 restoration highlights from 2019!
- 2024 Internships at Fine Art Restoration Company
- A clear view: British landscape painting restoration
- A New Hope: the restoration of beloved Star Wars poster
- A view of Segovia: restoring a Mary Cameron landscape
- Alabaster effigies: the restoration and care of gypsum sculptures
- Ancestral admiration: the restoration of historic Chinese portraits
- Antique desk restoration: reviving writing slopes & bureau care
- Antique enamelware: caring for enamel porcelain, miniatures and more
- Antique furniture: how to prevent accidental damage
- Antique furniture: wood types and risks following water damage
- Art collector sued by the museum he donated to
- Art deco restoration: reviving artwork & designs from the roaring twenties
- Art gallery services: professional care, advice and treatments for commercial and specialist art galleries
- Assessing the condition of watercolours
- Auction houses: professional conservation as a sales tool
- Baked earth: terracotta care and professional restoration
- Banksy on paper: protecting contemporary prints
- Banksy’s early artworks in Glasgow restored live
- Baroque blemishes: restoring 18th century portraits
- Beguiling tiles: restoring mosaics and ceramic tile art
- Botched art restorations: how would a professional restore these famous disasters?
- Bountiful birds: restoring driftwood bird sculptures by Guy Taplin
- Bountiful brew: analysing the age and value of teacups and teapots
- Boy punches hole In $1.5 million painting
- Bringing 3D printing to oil painting
- Bringing bright skies back to a 19th century mural at Westonbirt School
- Bronze sculpture restoration: history, craftsmanship & conservation care
- Can a cracked oil painting be repaired?
- Can frame quality affect watercolours?
- Can signatures be restored? The ethics of autograph and artist name conservation
- Can soup damage a painting?
- Can watercolour paintings be restored?
- Can you fix a ripped oil painting?
- Can you hang an oil painting in sunlight?
- Can you paint over varnished paintings?
- Caring for antique textiles
- Caring for decorative gilded frames
- Caring for high value upholstery: professional cleaning and damage prevention
- Caring for metal antiques and sculptures
- Cartography conservation: restoring maps and historic geography
- Cavaliers and baroque beauties: 17th century artists in England
- Chair design history: aging an antique chair by style and leg shape
- Charming carpets: antique and contemporary rug care
- Chest of drawers restoration: reviving antique bureaus and dressers
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- Heaven sent: angels in art history
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- How to protect paper from damage
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- The 4 steps to assessing an oil painting
- The arts, the internet and COVID-19
- The Grand Canal looking east from the Carità towards the Bacino (after Canaletto)
- The grand genre: classical history painting restoration
- The Grand Tour: restoring the painted souvenirs of 18th century Venice and beyond
- The history and restoration of Chinese panel art
- The Night Watch: restoring a bitumen damaged copy of Rembrandt’s masterpiece
- The path to becoming a conservator and an internship experience
- The perils and pitfalls of underinsured artworks
- The perils of inadequate storage for artworks
- The restoration of a Victorian mural at Westonbirt School: a case study for conservation architects
- The restoration of a World War Two map
- The restoration process for ceramics
- The risks facing open air sculptures in the UK
- Tips to safely store a painting before restoration
- Torn paper restoration
- Traditional furniture finishes: historically accurate polish, wax and stains
- Traditional furniture restoration: materials, treatments and finishes
- Trinket boxes and treasure chests: restoring decorative receptacles
- Trois crayons: protecting white, black and sanguine chalk
- Tulip mania and the symbolism of flowers in art
- Twenty Festive Art History Facts
- Veneer variations: identifying antique furniture wood types
- Washing watercolours to remove contamination and staining
- Water damaged Persian rug restoration
- Water-damaged artworks – how the insurer and supply chain can reduce claim costs
- Waxwork wonders: restoring and preserving unique wax sculptures
- Welcome to New Canton: the history and restoration of Bow Porcelain
- Welcome to the Fine Art Restoration Company’s London Studio
- What does the future hold for the art industry after coronavirus
- What to do if your artworks are fire damaged
- What to do if your oil painting becomes water-damaged
- Why do my paintings look dull?
- Will surface cleaning damage my oil painting?
- Wonderful watercolours: the history, care and restoration of paintings on paper
Water damaged painting
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Watercolour
- 5 acid stained artwork restorations
- 8 amazing foxing before and after examples
- Can frame quality affect watercolours?
- Cleaning a watercolour painting
- Common damage to watercolour paintings
- Common types of damage to watercolours
- Fascinating flora: botanical illustration care & restoration
- How do I get rid of foxing?
- How to prevent silverfish paper damage
- How to protect your watercolour painting
- How to restore your watercolour: the treatments
- How to treat foxing on a watercolour
- Mould and infestations in watercolour paintings
- Torn paper restoration
- Washing watercolours to remove contamination and staining
- Wonderful watercolours: the history, care and restoration of paintings on paper
Works On Paper
- A New Hope: the restoration of beloved Star Wars poster
- Ancestral admiration: the restoration of historic Chinese portraits
- Banksy on paper: protecting contemporary prints
- Can frame quality affect watercolours?
- Can signatures be restored? The ethics of autograph and artist name conservation
- Cartography conservation: restoring maps and historic geography
- Cinema memorabilia rescue: how to save damaged posters and lobby cards
- Cleaning a watercolour painting
- Common damage to watercolour paintings
- Common types of damage to watercolours
- Curious cat prints and ceramics: the life and art of Louis Wain
- Electronic preservation: digital restoration of important photographs
- Fascinating flora: botanical illustration care & restoration
- Glorious graphite: the history and restoration of pencil drawings
- How do I get rid of foxing?
- How to prevent silverfish paper damage
- How to protect paper from damage
- How to protect your watercolour painting
- How to treat foxing on a watercolour
- How we saved a collection of etchings
- Illustrated interiors: the history and restoration of antique wallpaper
- Japanese woodblock conservation: specialist methods for distinctive prints
- Lithograph longevity: protecting and restoring lithographic prints
- Mesmerising mezzotints: the restoration & safe display of antique prints
- Paper in peril: restoring water damage
- Pastels and chalks: the conservation of delicate artworks on paper
- Photography restoration: protecting and reviving moments from the past
- Pop art preservation: restoring Warhol prints
- Preserving posters: conservation lining options
- Repairing a tear in a watercolour
- Shin-hanga: restoring woodblock prints of the early 20th century
- Soot and sepia: the preservation of ink drawings
- The history and restoration of Chinese panel art
- Torn paper restoration
- Trois crayons: protecting white, black and sanguine chalk
- Washing watercolours to remove contamination and staining
- Wonderful watercolours: the history, care and restoration of paintings on paper