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Show CONDITION STATEMENT The painting is in fair condition. The painted canvas is stretched on to a 4member wooden stretcher - no keys are present. The painting is slack and there are numerous planar distortions throughout, including raised stretcher creases, pronounced corner draws, several acute bulges, especially along the bottom edge where debris has collected between the lower stretcher bar and the canvas. The canvas support is somewhat age weakened and brittle but intact. The paint layer is in good condition--sound, secure, and mostly intact. There is a superficial, 2-inch long scratch in the paint layer in the upper left quadrant and a small flake loss at lower right. There is a heavy accumulation of black, soot like grime overall. There appears to be a thin, slightly discolored natural resin varnish overall. There is a remnant of a paper label stuck to the painted surface in the lower left corner. TREATMENT PROPOSAL AND COST ESTIMATE Document condition with digital photograph and written report. Remove grime and paper label. Remove/thin the discolored varnish to the extent safely possible. Remove the painting from the stretcher. Clean the reverse of the canvas including removal of debris along bottom edge. Locally relax planer distortions using moisture and weights. Reinforce the tacking margins and foldover edges by strip-lining using linen fabric and Beva 371 adhesive. Re-stretch the strip-lined painting onto the original stretcher and key out. Apply a new, overall, reversible varnish coating. Fill and inpaint losses and disfigurements using a reversible inpainting medium. Apply a final varnish as necessary. Properly mount the painting into the frame. Provide a protective backing board. Wrap and crate for return transport. RESTORATION COST--ESTIMATED: $2,200.00 to 2,530.00. TRANSPORTATION COST--ESTIMATED: crating and shipping $1464. Total estimated cost: $2,200.00 to 2,530.00b + $1464. BIOGRAPHY: Courtesy of the Marriott Library Alfred Edward Lambourne was born in England on River Lambourne on February 2, 1850. His parents encouraged his artistic talents while he was young, and when the family converted to the L.D.S. faith and moved to the United States, Lambourne's experience as a romantic realist painter of the western landscape began. |
