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Edward Burne-Jones
By the Rivers of Babylon: Design for a Stained Glass Window
charcoal gift of Viscount Leverhulme, 1924
Conservation required: Edward Burne-Jones produced a number of stained glass window designs in the latter part of his career, which were then produced by William Morris and his firm. This is the right hand design for a double stained glass window for the church in Kirkcaldy. These works need minor cleaning, and we would like to put a more sympathetic moulding around the works than at present. It would still be black, as that would mimic the lead used in stained glass windows.Cost of treatment and frame: $750
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Edward Burne-Jones
St Hilda: Design for a Stained Glass Window
charcoal 2184 x 635mm gift of Viscount Leverhulme, 192
Conservation required: The Gallery is remarkably fortunate to have such a wonderful collection of works by such a major Pre-Raphaelite artist as Edward Burne-Jones. We owe this to the generosity of Viscount Leverhulme, who became friends with Sir John Logan Campbell and as a result decided to gift a small part of his vast Victorian collection to Auckland. This pair of drawings have not been exhibited for a very long time, as Victorian art was considered old-fashioned in the second half of the twentieth century. However, in the last decade the public, along with collectors worldwide, have re-established the tremendous value of such works. Cost of treatment and frame: $650
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Edmund Blair Leighton
Un d'Amour (A love token)
1881 oil on canvas gift of Dr G W Drewett
Conservation required: This work has definitely been in the wars and needs a lot of tender loving care to return it to its original glory. Over time the varnish has darkened, the canvas has torn and needs repairing, and the stretcher is badly warped so will need to be replaced. However, in nurturing hands it would once more return to its former glory. Cost of conservation and frame: $9200
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Sir James Dromgole Linton
Victorious: One of Four Works illustrating the Life of a Soldier of Fortune
1880 oil on canvas Mackelvie Trust Collection
Conservation required: Victorious is one of a series, expanded from the original four to six. Between 1882 and 1884, three were exhibited at the Royal Academy: The Banquet: one of a series of six illustrating the history of a soldier of the sixteenth century, The surrender, and The Declaration of War. Auckland's painting is rich in historical detail. Restored and framed, this painting will be a great addition to our very fine collection of Victorian paintings. Cost of conservation and frame: $5,600
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Bartholomeus van Hove
Canal Scene in Holland
oil on panel Mackelvie Trust Collection, bequest of James Tannock Mackelvie, 1885
Conservation required: This little picture has suffered from extreme changes in humidity causing the wooden panel on which it is painted to crack in half. This problem is not uncommon on works painted on panel. The treatment is surprisingly difficult due to the changes that have occurred to the panel since it split. Cost of conservation and frame: $2,500
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Alberto Pullicino
[Boats English, stormy seas]
1724 oil on canvas
Conservation required: It will take a considerable amount of work to restore this work, which was partially cleaned in the past but never completed. Blanching from the cleaning remains and there are varnish residues, tears and raised cracking still requiring attention. One of the three paintings by Pullicino has already been restored (see on display) and it would be wonderful to have all three available for exhibition.Cost of conservation and frame: $5500
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Alberto Pullicino
[Boats English, calm seas]
1724 oil on canvas
Conservation required: Pullicino painted his original set of eight views of Malta for the Chevalier Turgot in 1749, and made several other versions thereafter, with slight variations. Like its stormy partner, Boats - calm seas has been partially treated a long time ago but requires completion of the process. Previous restorations will have to be redone and discoloured varnish removed. The treatment is extensive but the results will be startling. Cost of conservation and frame: $5500
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Unknown artist
Portrait of Dr. Mudge
after Joshua Reynolds oil on canvas
Conservation required: Dr John Mudge, an eminent surgeon and mathematician, was a friend of Joshua Reynolds from childhood. John's father, Zachariah Mudge, Prebendary of Exeter and Vicar of St. Andrews in Plymouth, had taught in a school with John Reynolds, Sir Joshua's grandfather. This work is possibly by John Opie, whose portrait of Peter Pindar is in Passion and Politics. Cost of conservation and frame: $4,885
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Unknown artist
The Disbelief of Saint Thomas
after Hans Jordaens I oil on canvas gift of Mrs S D Price, 1954
Conservation required: If restored this painting would be a valuable addition to the Gallery's Old Master painting collection. Tiny cracks on the right side have a disfiguring effect on the painting and require treatment as does some discoloured retouching done in the past. This painting needs a sympathetic frame with gold highlights to bring out the warm flesh tones. Cost of conservation and frame: $7,300
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John Mortimer
Smugglers' Home
oil on canvas purchased 1959
Conservation required: We have wonderful etchings by Mortimer in Passion and Politics. Themes to do with smugglers or bandits was made popular by Italian artist Salvator Rosa, who was emulated by a number of English Romantic artists like Mortimer. Cleaning, restoring and framing this work would make it an excellent addition to our collection.Cost of conservation and frame: $1,610
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George Romney
Lady and Child
oil on canvas gift of Dr H Wansey Bayly, 1940
Conservation required: Romney was famous for the natural intimacy he imparted to his portraits, as witnessed in the loving relationship demonstrated in this work. The child snuggles shyly into her, as if slightly uncertain of the man who wants her to remain still for as long as possible. Cleaning, repairing damages to the surface and retouching the cracks would return this delightful painting to a state fit for exhibition. Cost of conservation and frame: $5300
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Unknown Artist
Head of a Man
oil on canvas gift of Mrs S D Price, 1954
Conservation required: The upturned gaze and minimal clothing of this beautiful man suggests he may be St John the Baptist. He certainly deserves to be cleaned and framed, as he would be an invaluable addition to the Old Master collection.Cost of conservation and frame: $3000
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Gaspard Dughet
A Classical Landscape With Cascade
oil on canvas gift of Sir George Grey, 1888
Conservation required: This is another of the paintings that Sir George Grey gifted to Auckland to help establish the Art Gallery. It needs to be cleaned, and losses will need retouching so that it can go on display once again. A gold frame will also set the painting off far better than the dark one currently attached. Cost of conservation and frame: $2200
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Marco Ricci
A Rocky Landscape With Figures
oil on canvas purchased 1961
Conservation required: A stage designer as well as an artist, Marco Ricci combined realistic views of the landscape with fantastical elements of the Baroque stage in his prints and paintings. He worked in Italy and in England as a designer for sets for theatre and opera. This small painting has a discoloured varnish, dark spotting and some discoloured retouching that needs attention. Cost of conservation and frame: $ 1,700
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Harry Leslie
Good Morning
oil on canvas Mackelvie Trust Collection, Gift of James Tannock Mackelvie, 1883
Conservation required: This charming little painting only needs a suitable frame to make her as good as new. She would look very attractive displayed with works such as Tissot's Still on top. Cost of frame: $480
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Alexander Roche
Figlia di Maria (One of the Procession )
c.1894 oil on canvas Mackelvie Trust Collection
Conservation required: One of Roche's other paintings, The Sabine woman is on display in Passion and Politics. This particular work was cleaned in 1995 but has not been displayed because it needs a new modernist frame similar to the one of Henri Hayden's Still life with guitar 1918 downstairs in A lighter touch. Cost of frame: $500
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Edward Burne-Jones
The Car of Love, or Love's Wayfaring
paste, brush drawing and charcoal gift of Viscount Leverhulme, 1924
Conservation required: This remarkable work has lost the external part of its frame. It was removed many years ago at a time when it was difficult to restore historic frames in New Zealand. However, we know what it should look like, as it was identical to the frame you can see on the artist's Fortitude in Passion and Politics. This is the most expensive project up for adoption - a reproduction frame modelled on Fortitude will cost a considerable amount, but the work is so valuable that it is well worth the expense. Cost of frame: $40,000
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Andrea Sacchi
The Vision of Saint Romuald
circa 1631 oil on canvas purchased 1961
Conservation required: This work was cleaned, retouched and given localised varnishing in 2003. However, the frame needs restoration treatment to mend losses that have occurred and to re-gild it.Cost of treatment of frame: $600
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Unknown artist
Portrait of a Young Man
oil on board
Conservation required: Although this has traditionally been described as a portrait of a young man, it is possible that it is in fact a young woman. The work was cleaned a few years ago, but such a delightful work deserves a more suitable frame. Cost of frame: $400
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Mary Beale
Sir Nicholas Stuart, Bart
oil on canvas gift of Dr Hugh Wansey Bayly, 1940
Conservation required: Mary Beale was a respected artist in the restoration court of King Charles II. She wrote an extremely valuable book on her use of painting materials and techniques that conservators still study, and was so successful that her husband gave up work to be her agent. This painting urgently requires an historic frame that matches the dignity of the sitter. Cost of frame: $2000
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John Morgan
The Schoolmistress' Birthday
oil on canvas Mackelvie Trust Collection, gift of James Tannock Mackelvie, 1882
Conservation required: Sotheby's were highly excited when they saw that we had this painting by John Morgan in our collection, as works by the artist have become very popular in Britain. It would benefit by a decent frame, which would allow it to be displayed in Passion and Politics later in the year. Cost of frame: $600
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Andrew Gow
Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament
1907 oil on canvas Mackelvie Trust Collection
Conservation required: Gow also painted The free traders, which is on display in Passion and Politics. This work marks an important event in Britain's history, when Cromwell dissolved Parliament after the execution of Charles I. Royalty would never feel entirely secure of their position again. Cost of frame: $500
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William Hemsley
Feeding the chicks
oil on canvas Mackelvie Trust Collection, gift of James Tannock Mackelvie, 1884
Conservation required: James Tannock Mackelvie had a love of intimate genre scenes such as this. At some time in the past the painting lost its frame, and needs a new one appropriate to its period. Cost of frame: $300
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Ida Tayler
Portrait of a Woman
c. 1885 oil on canvas purchased 1980
Conservation required: While the dark frame currently on this painting does little to enhance the gentle beauty of the sitter, if the moulding was gilded it would truly do her justice and bring out the warm tones of her skin. Cost of gilding the frame: $ 400
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Unknown Dutch artist after Hieronymous Bosch
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
oil on panel
Conservation required: Hieronymus Bosch was famous for his quirky creatures that were often composites of various animals. In this curious little painting, an elderly couple sit in a cave surrounded by bizarre objects, while a rat-like creature lists attentively to the old man's words. Although very dark it has not been possible to clean this work any further, but a gold frame would warm it considerably. Cost of frame: $300
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Unknown artist
Battle Scene
oil on canvas gift of Sir George Grey, 1887
Conservation required: This painting has recently been restored, and we are hoping that art historians in the Netherlands will be able to identify the artist. The painter has created wonderfully expressive horses who show links to Salvator Rosa and Leonardo da Vinci. Cost of frame: $4000
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George Leslie
The Last Ray
oil on canvas Mackelvie Trust Collection
Conservation required: This work has recently been restored and needs a new frame. The young woman's pensive gaze towards the setting sun has something of the quality of Millet's Angelus, the tolling of the bell at which workers stopped in prayer at the end of the day's labour. Cost of frame: $600
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Gaspard Dughet
Trees and Rocks
oil on canvas purchased 1962
Conservation required: Recent conservation treatment has demonstrated the remarkable quality of this painting, which has almost certainly been cut down from a larger scene. Dughet, along with Claude and Poussin, paid new attention to the landscape in the seventeenth century. What this work needs now is a gilded frame to set it off. Cost of frame: $1000
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Henry La Thangue
A Sussex Autumn
1907 oil on canvas Mackelvie Trust Collection
Conservation required: Again, the dark stock frame in which this work is displayed mars a wonderful painting. The painting will glow when framed in a suitable gilded and painted frame. Cost of frame: $700 The work is on display downstairs in the Lower Centre Gallery as part of A Lighter Touch.
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Harold Gilman
Mother and Child
1918, oil on canvas, purchased 1952
Conservation required: One of the many treasures in the International Modern collection, this intimate portrait of the artist's wife would greatly benefit from a more subtle frame. The work is on display downstairs in the Lower Centre Gallery as part of A Lighter Touch.Cost of frame: $700
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Duncan Grant
Vanessa Bell Pregnant
1918 oil on canvas Mackelvie Trust Collection, purchased with the assistance of the National Art Collections Fund, 1992
Conservation required: This portrait will be shown in Modern Britain 1900 English,1960 (working title) at National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, from Nov.2007 - Feb. 2008. With an appropriate modernist frame, Vanessa Bell would look far less 'confined'! Cost of frame: $700 The work is on display downstairs in the Lower Centre Gallery as part of A Lighter Touch.
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Spencer (Frederick) Gore
Tennis In Mornington Cresent Gardens
1910 oil on canvas purchased 1955
Conservation required: Spencer Gore was influenced by French art after an early trip to Paris. This work is part of his garden paintings, and show were influenced by the Impressionist style of Lucien Pissarro. The painting needs a decent modernist frame to set it off. Cost of frame: $600
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Unknown artist
Pentecostal Group
wood with traces of polychrome and gilt purchased 1965
Conservation required: When this little work arrived in the Gallery in 1965, no one knew that it was riddled with borer underneath its surface coating of gesso and paint. However, although several heads have become detached from some of the figures, we have been assured that it can be treated and the heads reattached! As our Gothic collection is quite small, we are very eager to have this work available for display. Cost of conservation $1,800
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William Theed
Apollo
1847 marble gift of Moss Davis, 1928
Conservation required: This sculpture is the partner to the bust of Artemis currently on display in the Lower Wellesley Gallery. It would be wonderful to restore the work so that they can be exhibited as a pair once more. General surface grime, scratches and considerable losses to the face make this a challenging treatment and restoration. Cost of conservation: $6,410
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William Theed
A Greek Lady
1848 Marble gift of Moss Davis, 1928
Conservation required: The treatment of the extensive soiling and scratches, as well as the restoration of losses is required to make this monumental bust exhibitable once again.Cost of conservation: $3,850.
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