George Scharf and improving collection care and restoration at the National Portrait Gallery
In the years following George Scharf’s appointment to the National Portrait Gallery in 1857, he had to face up to the conservation requirements of a growing collection. Before the expansion of museum collections in Victorian Britain, picture restoration had been a matter of satisfying the demands of...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/simon.pdf |