Aviva Ruth Burnstock (born 1959) [1] is head of the Department of Art Conservation & Technology at the Courtauld Institute, London. Professor Burnstock is a graduate of the University of Sussex (BSc. Neurobiology 1981) and took in 1991 a PhD at the Courtauld Institute [2]
In 2011 Burnstock was member of a team that confirmed in the BBC One television series Fake or Fortune? that the painting The Procuress in the Courtauld's collection – a version of a 1622 work by Dirck van Baburen now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – is an Oil paint- Bakelite forgery by Han van Meegeren made in the 1930s or 1940s. [3] [4] She has since made several appearances on the programme.
She is Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation. [5]
She is the daughter of the neurobiologist Geoffrey Burnstock [6] and married since 1989 to Hugh Sebag-Montefiore.
Aviva Ruth Burnstock (born 1959) [1] is head of the Department of Art Conservation & Technology at the Courtauld Institute, London. Professor Burnstock is a graduate of the University of Sussex (BSc. Neurobiology 1981) and took in 1991 a PhD at the Courtauld Institute [2]
In 2011 Burnstock was member of a team that confirmed in the BBC One television series Fake or Fortune? that the painting The Procuress in the Courtauld's collection – a version of a 1622 work by Dirck van Baburen now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – is an Oil paint- Bakelite forgery by Han van Meegeren made in the 1930s or 1940s. [3] [4] She has since made several appearances on the programme.
She is Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation. [5]
She is the daughter of the neurobiologist Geoffrey Burnstock [6] and married since 1989 to Hugh Sebag-Montefiore.