IL Restauro fine art

03/04/2026

Spectacular Fushimi Inari Shrine , Japan

07/02/2026

The Conservation of Constance Felicity Crombie by “J.B. SOUTER 1927”. Private Collection
John Bulloch Souter 1880-1971( extract from Artuk.com)
Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
Painter, draughtsman, printmaker and restorer, born in Aberdeen, Scotland. After showing much promise in art at Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, he attended Gray’s School of Art there. A travelling scholarship allowed him to work extensively on the continent, where Velázquez, Chardin and Vermeer, especially, much impressed him. During World War I served as non-combatant in Royal Medical Corps, then married and moved to London. By this time he had established himself as an RA exhibitor, and in the period after the war he made a name as a portrait painter, his subjects including stage personalities such as Ivor Novello, Gladys Cooper and Fay Compton as well as notables in public and academic life. In 1926 Souter’s picture The Breakdown caused a stir at RA, depicting a Black jazz musician, a naked white girl dancer and a broken classic statue.
Souter consolidated his reputation with exhibits at Redfern Gallery, Fine Art Society, RSA and elsewhere. In World War II he worked in the Censorship Department, London, as a translator and restored paintings at Windsor Castle. Returned to Aberdeen in 1952, where he remained.

16/11/2025

Cleaning of Dutch still life oil on wood panel painting . Signed
Willem Verbeet 1801-1887

06/07/2025

29/06/2025

Crossing Brooklyn Bridge over to Manhattan.
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16/05/2025

“Origin of thoughts” Mixed media on canvas , 100xm x 100 cm . Consolidation of dislodging paint layer on gilt ground . Private Collection

20/04/2025

18/04/2025

Watching the mighty Etna vulcano spitting out lava tonight ! What a spectacle! ✈️

03/03/2025

Cleaning of a highly oxidised Marine scene .

03/03/2025

SOPHIA WYSOCKA (1915 Poland - 2008, London UK)

05/11/2024

Portrait of a valiant Naval Officer signed and dated 1795 by Carl Frederik Von Breda - (1759-1818) Swedish painter who specialised in historical and portrait painting. This oil on canvas portrait has been restored and relined in the past when excessive overpaint together with the heavily oxidised varnish were used, now causing flaking blisters and pealing on the surface . After consolidation of dislodging areas, removal of overpaint and oxidised varnish, this naval officer looks as valiant as ever.