Rooms without Houses, Paintings without Walls

Lisette Vos is a junior paintings conservator at the Rijksmuseum. She graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a master’s degree and professional post-master in conservation and restoration of paintings in 2010. She has worked on projects for the reopening of the Rijksmuseum in 2013, including the full restoration of the paintings belonging to the Beuning Room. In 2014 she participated in the interdisciplinary research project ‘From Isolation to Coherence: An Integrated Technical, Visual and Historical Study of 17th and 18th Century Dutch Painting Ensembles’. The Andriessen case study is part of this project.

Ige Verslype studied art history at the University of Utrecht and was trained as a paintings conservator at the Limburg Conservation Institute (SRAL) in Maastricht. She has been working as a paintings conservator at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam since 2004. In 2013 she joined the interdisciplinary research project ‘From Isolation to Coherence: An Integrated Technical, Visual and Historical Study of 17th and 18th Century Dutch Painting Ensembles’. She is conducting her PhD research on the technical development of painted wall hangings in the context of this project.

Richard Harmanni studied Art History at Groningen and Leiden, and specialised in interior art. From 2001 to 2007 he was coordinator of the project ‘Inventarisatie decoratieve interieurschilderingen in Nederland (1600-1940)’ for the Netherlands Institute for Art History and the Cultural Heritage Agency. In 2006 he obtained his doctorate with his thesis Jurriaan Andriessen (1742-1819). ‘Behangselschilder’. Since 2011 he has been an independent art historian and guest lecturer. He works for TU Delft, various local authorities and heritage organizations, the art trade and private individuals as a researcher, publicist and consultant. He also chairs the about the authors 119 Stichting Historische Behangsels en Wanddecoraties in Nederland.

Margriet van Eikema Hommes studied Art History and obtained her doctorate in 2002 for her dissertation on the discolouration of fifteenth- to seventeenth-century oil paintings. Since 2005 she has worked as a researcher at the Cultural Heritage Agency, and since 2011 as an Associate Professor at tu Delft. Her research focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch painting ensembles, combining scientific investigations into techniques and materials with research into the visual and iconographic aspects of these works of art.