{"id":4931,"date":"2018-06-28T09:45:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T13:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieborden.org\/CuratorsCorner\/?p=4931"},"modified":"2018-07-03T12:53:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T16:53:03","slug":"update-on-a-dunning-landscape-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/2018\/06\/28\/update-on-a-dunning-landscape-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on a Dunning Landscape Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a recent posting I discussed <em>Autumn at Medway<\/em>, a diminutive 1885 oil on wood-panel painting by the Fall River artist Robert Spear Dunning (1829-1905); it depicts a scene on the Charles River in Medway, Massachusetts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Well, as promised \u2013 an update.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last week the painting was delivered to the painting conservator for cleaning with the request that the process be documented with photographs \u2013 very important, recording any conservation work done to a picture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As expected, the results thus far are rather dramatic, evidenced by this image.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An understatement, perhaps?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Amazing, the colors and details obscured by 131 years of discolored varnish and surface grime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The work is being undertaken at the Boston studio of Peter Williams Museum Services; the studio has done considerable work for the FRHS in recent years, and is very well respected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to Peter: \u201cWe are delighted to have this amazing painting in our studio for cleaning\u201d \u2013 nice to know that I am not the only person who considers it a little gem of a piece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Will follow up with an image of the cleaning finis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Great stuff!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent posting I discussed Autumn at Medway, a diminutive 1885 oil on wood-panel painting by the Fall River artist Robert Spear Dunning (1829-1905); it depicts a scene on the Charles River in Medway, Massachusetts. Well, as promised \u2013 an update. Last week the painting was delivered to the painting conservator for cleaning with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[57,35,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4933,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions\/4933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}