Apologies

November 17 2016

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Picture: BG

I'm sorry for the lack of blogging lately, I've been in London cramming in various meetings. First I was at the BBC. Then I went to Windsor to look at some picture files in the Royal Collection; x-rays of a Van Dyck. (By chance I also had a brief audience with the Queen, in the form of her portrait by Lucien Freud, the one The Sun declared to be 'A Travesty Your Majesty' when it was unveiled. As a portrait of the Queen it really tells us hardly anything. It's a far better portrait of Freud.) Then I had a fruitful session at my restorer's in London, where we summoned up the courage to tackle an old layer of overpaint on the background of a head study by Van Dyck. In the photo above you can see some of the swabs. Finally I had some meetings about the ongoing fake Old Master scandal; more on that soon.

I need to file a piece for The Art Newspaper today, then I'll post some articles here later.


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