News
Reframing a 'Winter Landscape' by Jacob van Ruisdael, Birmingham Museum of Art
Posted: 13 May 2016 by PML
Robert Schindler, Curator of European Art at Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, approached us about reframing their Winter Landscape by Jacob van Ruisdael.
FRAMING BONNARD’S La charmille, 1901
Posted: 11 May 2016 by Paul Mitchell
This small, striking work was recently purchased at auction by a Private Collector in a deadening pastiche Louis XIV frame. Removing this you could feel the painting give a sigh of relief ...
FRAME HISTORY: The Cassetta, Part 1
Posted: 27 May 2016 by PML
The cassetta is the most fundamental frame design, on which practically every other genre or pattern is based. It is usually translated, lazily, as a 'box' frame, which doesn't describe it at all. It could be more accurately called an 'encasing' frame, like a casement window; a rectangular border with a very simple cross section, usually with a flat central frieze surrounded on each side by mouldings.
Two frames loaned to Sotheby's for their 'Orientalist Sale'
Posted: 16 Apr 2016 by PML
On request, Paul Mitchell were able to offer suitable frames for the following works during Sotheby's London Orientalist sale in April:
Framing CARAVAGGIO'S The Crucifixion of St Andrew, Cleveland Museum of Art
Posted: 20 May 2016 by PML
This dramatic work is among the most important paintings at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and its conservation and re-framing had long been anticipated.
Two frames loaned to Sotheby's for their 19th Century European Paintings Sale
Posted: 16 May 2016 by PML
On request, Paul Mitchell were able to offer suitable frames for the following works during Sotheby's London 19th Century European Paintings sale in May:
Reframing THOMAS LAWRENCE'S Portrait of Charlotte and Sarah Cateret-Hardy (1801), for the Cleveland Museum of Art
Posted: 18 Sep 2016 by PML
In the course of evaluating the frames in the Collection, the Associate Curator of European Art, Dr. Cory Korkow, and colleagues determined that the Lawrence double portrait should be presented in a contemporary British period setting...
Loan frames for Sotheby's 19th century European paintings sale
Posted: 12 Dec 2016 by PML
Paul Mitchell are loaning frames for works by Liebermann and Corot in Sotheby's upcoming 19th Century European paintings sale, December 14, 2016
Reframing JACOB VAN RUISDAEL’S Landscape with Waterfall and Castle, c. 1670, for The Dayton Institute of Art
Posted: 12 Dec 2016 by PWM
We were approached by Dr. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (whilst curator at The Dayton Institute of Art), in a bid to find this beautiful landscape by Jacob Ruisdael a soul mate..!
Reframing ALESSANDRO ALLORI's Portrait of a Lady, probably Camilla Martelli de’Medici, 1570s, for Saint Louis Art Museum
Posted: 20 Apr 2017 by PML
Judith W. Mann, Curator of European Art at Saint Louis Art Museum, initially approached us in regards to reframing their 'Portrait of a Woman’ by the Florentine Mannerist painter, Allesandro Allori..
Categories
- Articles on multiple aspects of European frames
- Recent framing projects undertaken by Paul Mitchell Ltd
