POST July 2023 – Getty Foundation Conserving Canvas Workshops, review by Jelena Zagora in IIC News in Conservation
Dear participants and lecturers,
In June 2023, the masterclass made the cover of the IIC News in Conservation. We are grateful to Jelena who published an article on her participation to two workshops as part of the Conserving Canvas initiative including The Dutch Method Unfolded.
All best wishes,
POST July 2023 – The Dutch Method Unfolded: A masterclass on wax-resin lining, a review of the program’s achievements, NICAS colloquium online, June 2023
Dear participants and lecturers,
On the 1st of June 2023, Melissa and I presented the achievements of the masterclass were presented at the NICAS colloquium. Maybe you missed it. So here is the video of it.
All best wishes,
POST August 2021 I – Alternative lining methods
Dear participants and lecturers,
We hope you all had a wonderful summer holiday. We are back with two new uploads for the online program of the Dutch Method Unfolded: Mireille te Marvelde and Kate Seymour. These are the last video’s of the online series. Now we will start to focus on preparation for the physical part of the Masterclass next summer.
The first lecture is by Mireille te Marvelde. She is a paintings conservator at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem. Her lecture gives insight into the treatment history of the collection of the Frans Hals Museum. Te Marvelde focuses on the history of wax-resin lining in the collection.
POST July 2021 – Lectures 19th Century Paintings
Dear you all,
In this new series of recorded videos the online program of the Dutch Method Unfolded focuses on the wax-resin lining of 19th century paintings in Dutch national collections. Rene Boitelle and Ella Hedriks prepared a lecture for you.
Rene Boitelle is senior paintings conservator in the Van Gogh Museum. His lecture focuses on the history of wax-resin lining in the Mesdag Collection which includes 19th century paintings, works on paper and decorative art from the Netherlands, France and Asia.
POST June 2021 II – Lecture Color change
Dear participants and lecturers,
This month we also have a lecture by Emilie Froment on color change. Froment talks about color changes in seventeenth century Netherlandish paintings after wax-resin lining. She investigated this subject as part of her PhD, which she defended in 2019 at the University of Amsterdam.
POST June 2021 I – Lectures Operation Night Watch
Dear participants and lecturers,
This series of lectures draws attention to The Night Watch (1642), the world-famous painting by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) housed in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Lectures are by Esther van Duijn and Petria Noble on Operation Night Watch.
Esther van Duijn, paintings conservator at the Rijksmuseum, presents in a nearly 1-hour long talk the conservation history of the painting with a special focus on the three wax-resin linings that the paintings underwent in 1851, 1945 and 1975.
Read more on Operation Night Watch…
POST May 2021 – Three lectures available
Dear participants and lecturers,
This month we have three new lectures by Louise Wijnberg, Klaas Jan van den Berg and Cecil Krarup Andersen. The lectures vary in subject so they each have there own introduction page.
The first lecture is presented by Louise Wijnberg, private painting conservator of modern art in Amsterdam. Her presentation focuses on the history of the wax-resin linings of 1957 of twenty-five paintings by Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935). Throughout the talk, Louise refers to key moments in the history of wax-resin-linings and in doing so she elaborates on the talk presented by IJsbrand Hummelen in this series of lectures.
Read more on Klaas Jan van den Berg…
Read more on Cecil Krarup Andersen…
POST Literature available
New literature became available for everyone to download.
Mireille te Marvelde, ‘How Dutch is ‘The Dutch Method’? A History of Wax-resin Lining in its International Context’. In Past Practice – Future Prospects, A. Oddy and S. Smith (eds.), The British Museum Occasional Paper, 2001, no. 145, 143-149.
The pdf is available for download: “How Dutch is ‘The Dutch Method’?”
All the literature can be found under: resources.
POST April 2021 – Lecture History of the critique of wax-resin linings
Dear participants and lecturers,
The lecture by IJsbrand Hummelen, senior research conservator at the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherland (RCE), is now online. It is about the history of the critique of wax-resin linings. The talk examines how the drawbacks of wax-resin linings to paintings’ material and physical characteristics supported the change of mentalities towards linings that occurred in the conservation field in the 1970s. Throughout the presentation, IJsbrand reflects on how the new attitude was received and implemented in the Netherlands, birth country of the wax-resin lining method. This presentation is the testimony of a conservator who experienced these changing times.
POST March 2021 II – Lecture I special series
Dear participants and lecturers,
Please find below the link towards the lecture by Sabrina Meloni, paintings conservator at the Mauritshuis. This presentation is part of our special series of lectures focused on the history of wax-resin lining in Dutch Museums. The Mauritshuis, in the Hague, is known worldwide for its unique collection of paintings by Dutch and Flemish masters from the time of Rembrandt and Vermeer. The museum’s in-house team of conservators are engaged with conservation, restoration and technical research on a daily basis.
POST March 2021 I – Lectures canvas support for paintings
Dear participants and lecturers,
The second series of recorded lectures as part of the masterclass The Dutch Method Unfolded is available on the website.
This series of lecture shares basic knowledge on the conservation of canvas paintings. Although many of you are certainly already familiar with the topic, the Getty Foundation and I thought it was wise to include this background information as part of the lecture program, in order to fill potential gap of knowledge.
The lecture by Abbie Vandivere, paintings conservator at the Mauritshuis in The Hague and lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, focuses on the material and technical history of canvas supports for paintings. Case studies comprise 17th and 19th century paintings produced in North West Europe.
POST February 2021 – Lectures History part I
Dear participants and lecturers,
The first series of recorded lectures as part of the masterclass The Dutch Method Unfolded is available online. For the next six months we will post recorded lectures on this website with each month a different theme.
We are starting the program with two lectures on the history of wax-resin lining. The lectures are presented by Mireille te Marvelde, paintings conservator at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem and Esther van Duijn, paintings conservator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Mireille te Marvelde presents about wax-resin linings through history: origin, principles and dissemination. Esther van Duijn presents on the traditions and development in the use of the wax resin lining method in the Rijksmuseum Part I – 1851 to 1930.