Sometimes when clients bring in damaged paintings we learn how the damage occurred, other times we are left to guess. This one left us guessing. There were multiple spots on the canvas where the paint had been chipped off each need re-painting (touching up). As well as detailed work the whole painting was cleaned and reframed.
If you look at our website you will see many examples of paintings which we have repaired and restored to their former glory. This is a process which we have developed over the last hundred years after Mr Gadsby senior accepted his first commission...
Two clients brought in lion ornaments (one lion, one lioness) for repair. Each ornament had one broken ear which was successfully repaired as shown in the images below.
The images above show the before and after of an oil painting recently cleaned at Gadsbys. The patches on the side of the first image show just a little of the dirt which was removed in the very early stages of the cleaning process. In these two...
Cleaning paintings is one of our most common restoration tasks. Hopefully you can get a feel for the change we achieve from these images. But, in reality, it is the owners of the paintings who are the only people who can really appreciate the...
To begin the process of a total repair to this canvas we have removed the stretched canvas from the decorative gilt frame, and removed the tacks which attach the canvas to its wooden support frame. The canvas is now a floppy piece of fabric which...
'Fido' came in a broken beast! He was in six large pieces and things didn't look good for him. Fido, our name for him not his owner's, was a large (approx 36" tall) ceramic dog. He had met with a unfortunate accident.When he left he was whole...