Tutor: Jørgen Wadum
Price: £25.00
Platform: Zoom
More information: https://academicprojects.co.uk/courses/marks-on-art-the-marking-and-branding-of-17th-century-panel-and-copper-paintings/
There will be a 55min presentation followed by 15min of discussion.
On the reverse of early modern Dutch and Flemish paintings, panel and copper plate makers often marked their products with a personal mark, a monogram or a house-mark. This is particularly known from Antwerp but also occurred in the Northern Netherlands. In Antwerp, after a quality check, the guild of St. Luke also branded the approved supports with a hall mark. These marks provide unique information about dating of the artwork, place of manufacture, maker and trade. Marks on art are difficult to interpret even for art experts, thus a trusty and easily accessible database is being established to fulfil a longstanding wish by conservators, curators and others in the field. A new project called Marks on Art will be integrated into the existing database infrastructure of the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. This will permit cross-linking between artworks, artists and technical research data including dendrochronological research results.
Jørgen Wadum has just returned from a three month period as scholar-in-residence at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles. He is director of Wadum Art Technological Studies, an Associate Researcher at the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, and a Special Advisor for Dutch & Flemish art at the Nivaagaard Collection, Nivå, Denmark.
From 1990 through 2004 he was Chief Conservator at the Mauritshuis, The Hague. From 2005-2017 he was Director of Conservation at the Danish National Gallery and from 2017 to 2020 he was director of the Centre for Art Technological Studies and Conservation (CATS) in Copenhagen. He also held the position as full Professor in Conservation & Restoration at the University of Amsterdam, 2012-2016.
Featured image: David Ryckaert III, Painters in a Studio, 1638. Panel, 59 х 95 cm. ©Louvre, Paris
