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Show TREATMENT PROPOSAL AND COST ESTIMATE Document condition with digital photograph and written report. Locally consolidate and secure the raised cracks and edges of losses using an appropriate adhesive. Remove grime Remove the discolored varnish to the extent safely possible. Rebuild the upper right corner and reinforce/consolidate the edges of panel. 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 into frame. Provide a protective backing board. Wrap and crate for return transport. RESTORATION COST--ESTIMATED: $1,760.00 to 1,980.00 TRANSPORTATION COST--ESTIMATED: crating and shipping: $1464. Total estimated cost: $1,760.00 to 1,980.00 + $1464. BIOGRAPHY from Springville Museum of Art: Danquart Anthon Weggeland was born in Christiana, Norway, in 1827. As a child he was interested in drawing, and at 16 he was able to start art lessons with a local portrait painter. Four years later he left home for a year's apprenticeship with a painter and decorator in Copenhagen and then spent the next year studying at the Danish Royal Academy of Art. Back in Norway, he supported himself with an odd assortment of jobs, took lessons in landscape painting, made a little money painting portraits, decorated some curtains for a theater, and studied costume design to improve his figurative work. In 1854, W eggeland agreed to attend a meeting of the recently organized Stavanger branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he met another aspiring artist, C. C. A. Christensen. Within a year of their meeting, W eggeland became a member of the LOS church. Christensen and Weggeland both eventually emigrated to Utah and remained lifelong friends. Dan Weggeland moved to England and served a mission for the Church there from 1857 to 1861, and then he emigrated to America. While working to earn money to move west, he studied with Daniel Huntington and George P.A. Healy, two of the most successful portrait painters in the East. These two artists both used a refined, smooth technique that influenced W eggeland's style of portraiture and gave his later portraits an elegance not found in most of his Utah contemporaries' work. In 1862, Weggeland finally had enough money to travel to Salt Lake City, arriving in |
