Usually, painting conservators can use varnish to hide irregularities in their work.

Tan is also a professional paintings conservator.

Miss Signorelli is a paintings conservator in New York.

"This was a challenge because it was so unusual," said Ms. Irgang, a painting conservator since 1984.

"It's exciting work, constantly learning, the departments cooperating, getting new ideas from each other," said Sandy Webber, a painting conservator.

A painting conservator by trade, Ms. Gilje creates didactic parodies of old master paintings.

The bride, a paintings conservator in New York, is a graduate of Syracuse University, where she received a master's degree in art history.

Stanley Littlejohn (born Camberwell, London 1876 - died 1917) was an English painting conservator and restorer.

Joyce Hill Stoner, art historian and paintings conservator, found it has the "exactitude characteristic of sixteenth-century German oil technique."

We bought them this year and took them to Tom Yost, a paintings conservator, who removed the relining and discovered inscriptions on the back.