Speaker: Julia Korner
7 February 2023
The lecture includes a brief history of frames and focuses on their design and construction. Julia also discusses the conservation of frames and how to choose the right one to transform a painting and display it to its best advantage.
– The History of Frames – how frames have developed in Europe, often influenced by prevailing architectural styles.
– The Design & Making of Frames – an insight into their design & selection and gilding techniques over time, together with the materials used in the workshop.
Profile
Julia Korner is a specialist and lecturer in fine art conservation and the restoration of paintings, sculptures and frames. She is also a valuer, passionate collector, advisor and curator of paintings and works of art.
She trained in art history and conservation at Cambridge. Then for twenty years she worked for Christie’s as a paintings’ specialist, building extensive knowledge of Old Masters and British, European and American paintings from the 1700s onwards. She set up Christie’s Maritime Department in 1986, followed by the Frame sales, the Aeronautical, Exploration & Travel and the Polar sales.
In 1997 Julia was elected Huntington Fellow of the Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia, USA. A seven-year commitment there saw her catalogue this collection and that of its sister organisation, the South Street Seaport Museum, New York.