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...The museum’s conservators have undone decades of deterioration and fading, restoring the decor with an obsessiveness worthy of Isabella’s....
...He relates the story of an alleged art collector who asked him to examine a work going up for auction, and a second work in a nearby conservator’s studio....
...Conservator Mark Sandiford has just finished restoring a spectacular example at Blenheim Palace, depicting a tiger hunt in India, which was commissioned from Dufour et Cie and hung in 1826....
...On Eldon Grove, near several good schools, Savills has a penthouse for sale at £4.25m....
...“I gathered all the pictures in one room,” he says, “and when the conservator looked at the Van Gogh, she said the condition was really good!” Oak Spring was no ramshackle mess....
...In Hunt’s novel she narrates — how reliably we do not know — the story of her life as a warrior and her hard road back home; the result is gritty, lyrical and compelling....
...Two plays involving child abuse; Neilson’s a dark, dreamlike fantasy in which terror is always present but nothing definitively happens, Weigh’s a parable about the legislative and vigilante witch-hunt that...
...But now conservator Robert Mitchell – who first came into contact with Barry’s paintings when he restored one in the early 1990s – has persuaded Capps to release eight paintings and about 40 drawings and...
...And even exporters do not hunt far afield for the best deals on services such as trade finance....
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