Featured Restoration: Painting example
Artist: Van der Bos
Medium: Oil on canvas
Damage Cause: Water damage from flood

Damage Assessment:
»Major paint loss
»Tears in the canvas
»Previous crude restoration
»Unstable paint layer
»Canvas shrinkage
»Water-logged stretcher
»Mildew in canvas and stretcher

Conservation Treatment:
»Aligned and bridged tears
»Painting lined
»Stretched on new stretcher
»Painting cleaned
»Removed previous restoration
»Compensate surface
»In-paint
»Varnish