Can I find someone from 300 years ago ?
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In this episode we continue the cleaning of Mr Croxton, removing layers of dirt and discoloured varnish. The research I've done online takes me down a rabbit hole and we get the painting ready for a barrier varnish and retouching.
0:00 - introduction
0:36 - cleaning the face
01:38 - removing varnish
01:56 - message from me
03:16 - more varnish removal
05:45 - the rabbit hole
10:51 - cleaning the background
13.43 - conclusion
15:31 - credits
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The history and backstory of the paintings really stands this channel out from others. It's fascinating.
This has been a great series. I’ve enjoyed the history lesson too, and I like the fact that for you, it’s a reward, and an addition to your joy of restoration.
Mr. Croxton is dressed like a magistrate.
The background of many of these older paintings always seem to hide interesting details under the dirt, varnish, and worst, overpainting. It's like whoever did previous restorations didn't feel like dealing with any details. I'm looking forward to see what this painting is hiding!
I really appreciate the field trip - it really brings the past back to life!
I think atittudes to restoration were much different to what they are now, in those days it was very much clean and improve where today its leaning more towards conservation, which is more preserve for the future...
Well done! Loved the road trip segment. The investigative aspect you’ve added makes your channel unique! Love your work. Keep at it! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you
I love your channel. Love the content. Your voice is great. But my favorite part is hearing your wood floors creak now and then - feels like I am there with you as I watch. Please keep that.
Yes! I was just thinking about the creaking - gives the stories a whole new dimension ❤
I spend a lot of time in cemeteries, and it’s wild to me that the grave stones could just be taken and used to pave a walkway. I know I live in a much younger place in the world, but my area’s history is of hardened, grizzled people who couldn’t afford sentiment (or, honestly, the seemingly superfluous decoration that is a headstone) and still our cemetery histories and grounds are untouchable. It’s actually pretty cool to see places in the world that are old enough to necessitate moving past that. My brain has a hard time wrapping around this idea.
He looks better with the cleaning so far.Its amazing how much the dirt hid of the real colours on the portrait.I apriciate it’s an old painting,but as you have said it has been restored before.You would have thought it would have been a bit better done.Restoration has been a profession for a long time now.But I suppose they were not so interested in keeping it origional as the new restorers are.Its a shame really.But your doing an excellent job in both the cleaning and the research.He looks great.Cant wait for the coat of varnish that will show the true colours before the retouching 🥰
Yes I think different atitudes then , more of scrub it up and get it out!
Have you tried the local town hall? He may have been a dignitary, mayor or justice of the peace. They might have records.
WOW! This was just GREAT! I am so excited about your visit to St Michaels, Croxton Hall, and Croxton Hall Farm. Since I will never get to England I particularly enjoyed the local scenery as well. I also enjoyed the viewer comments. Everything about your channel gives such pleasure and satisfaction.
Thank you , glad you enjoyed the trip
I’ll bet your customers are blown away when they see the final results!
It must be my imagination, but at time stamp 11.55 it looks like raised letters are visible in the bottom left corner. Perhaps it's worth using a raking light to see if there is anything there.
When you come across a painting that has that much varnish and overpaint, how do you know when it’s time to just stop cleaning?
Good question
When you are not making any great gains and there is nothing underneath, you dont want to run the risk of being overly aggressive so you have to make a decesion to stop
I am shocked to see the headstones being used like that! I thought England was pretty progressive when it comes to preserving their history.
It's a matter of choosing what part of history to preserve, actually. One can't take a ramble across a field without tripping over four eras of history all piled atop each other in layers. When one has to choose which to preserve over all the others, generally the ones about which the most is known get set aside. If there's a sort of living memory of anything, for instance gravestones, that gets set aside in favor of the Romans. If there's evidence of pre-Roman settlement, the Romans get set aside. Etc. It may be history, but where there is an abundance of history, it's not interesting history until it's been forgotten.
@@k.jespersen6145 I guess when you live in a country with so much history everywhere the perspective is different. I live in Western Canada where we do not have much preserved history. I also study genealogy; so headstones used as a sidewalk really makes me cringe!
@dannsherstone1037 I understand. When I was growing up in England, it was the reality that "you just can't preserve everything." On East Coast U.S., we have the space (usually) to try to preserve everything, but there are patches in cities that are getting to the point of being in England's position, so it's coming down to decisions like, "Do we knock down the 1960s brutalist pumping station to enable us to stabilize the 1900s boarding house, or do we let the boarding house tumble so we can preserve the more recent architecture?"
Now, I have no idea what happened that that church ended up paving a path with headstones, but I can think of a scenario that happened a few times while I was growing up in England that might explain it: The town watermain or sewer suffers catastrophic failure, and it happens to run on the other side of the priory wall. To replace it, they're going to have to dig up part of the churchyard. They get an emergency evaluation by the local archaeologist, who discovers that the main has actually had a leak going for decades, and there's no preservation on the contents of the graves. Emergency permission is granted to dig up the main. Church is faced with the fact that there is no way they'll be able to get the headstones back in place after the repairs, and there is nothing left to mark anyway. There's no money in the parish or town council budgets to build an outbuilding to store the headstones, and there's no more room inside the church for a mason to mortar them to walls. But you can't just destroy these headstones, that would be a travesty. So the church decides to make them available to people who still might browse them by using them to pave a path. Maybe in another year or two, if there's more money in the parish, they can pay someone to come and preserve the surfaces, or catalogue the inscriptions.
Personally, I prefer even the poor preservation of a pathway to the headstones being sold off to rubble merchants for building fill, which has happened before. But that's just me. 🤷
@@k.jespersen6145 It's not necessary a problem with the sewage system. The area around the church hasn't been used for new burials for quite a long time. Many of the headstone might have fallen over or were already broken. It's quite difficult to keep the place clean and save then. In most places in Europe it's quite normal to reuse graves and throw away the old gravestones. This gravestone were to old to be just thrown away, but not important enough to store them in a way that they can't get more damage. I think it's a nice idea to use the gravestones for the paving and I think it's very neatly done. When people now walk over the headstones they may look down and might think who were these people. It's still better as if they would be totally forgotten.
Do you revarnish the painting after cleaning? If so do you find that new varnish doesn't adhere and tends to bead similar to rainwater on a car or glass surface.?
Yes I revarnish, if your varnish is beading or not adhering you could have contaminants on the surface
How lucky I feel that I found this channel! 🤍