The Regency Gent - Saving a failed restoration Part 5

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  • Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
  • In this episode we complete the final clean includng the mechanical removal of fused paint layers. We apply a conservation soap and begin to retouch the portrait. We also try and decipher what is left of the signature and do some further research on artists of the time.
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Комментарии • 125

  • @lindalowe5592
    @lindalowe5592 10 месяцев назад +8

    I really enjoyed watching the transformation of this painting as it really was bonfire-worthy before you got it. You have incredible skill and patience and I was very interested when you got to the retouching part. It would be so tempting to overpaint the whole thing instead of respecting what remains of the original after its abuse and just touch up dot by dot. I have to admit when you took your first swab with solvent on the painting for the first clean, I was holding my breath and almost expecting an “oh shit” moment but you didn’t ruin it. 😊. Well done.

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад +2

      Thank you ! glad you are enjoying the series, yes little by little with this one and it will begin to come back together!

  • @thelamandapanda
    @thelamandapanda 10 месяцев назад +42

    He's gone from Cousin Collins to Mr. Darcy 😂

    • @fibienn250
      @fibienn250 10 месяцев назад +3

      More like Collins to Captain Wentworth 😂

    • @MollySato
      @MollySato 10 месяцев назад +1

      Yes!!! Exactly!! 🤗😁🤗

  • @GlennTillema
    @GlennTillema 10 месяцев назад +9

    I love how this restoration went from a pictures of "momma's chunky boy posing for a soup label" to "respected world weary english gentleman."

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад +2

      Yes it is a massive transformation, I think he does look a little jaded or maybe just a stormy disposition...

    • @lynnedelacy2841
      @lynnedelacy2841 10 месяцев назад +1

      World weary is a good description

  • @marcusandersson...
    @marcusandersson... 10 месяцев назад +17

    At 26:46 "...was eventually persuaded by her son to leave it and have it properly cleaned at some time in the future". Wow, this is actually referring to you. You are are the person who properly cleaned it some time in the (very distant) future. What an amazing thing to be linked to the past in this way.
    Great series, I really enjoyed it 😊

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад +5

      Thank you and yes I suppose your right! it took a while though, I'm happy that we have found the original portrait and it was pretty much intact although a little worse for wear! retouching this week and then he'll be good fr another 200 years!

  • @judithstuart9631
    @judithstuart9631 10 месяцев назад +10

    Nice change from Baumgartner! Thanks, Algorithm. 😊

  • @Vimby233
    @Vimby233 10 месяцев назад +10

    I would happily watch an hour of just retouching with just ambient sound. No problem at all. No music or editing needed.

  • @mollysheridan7134
    @mollysheridan7134 10 месяцев назад +5

    It just blows me away how Williams turned this handsome man into a caricature.

  • @m.inthedesert7134
    @m.inthedesert7134 7 месяцев назад +1

    If James Sant wasn't born in 1820 it would be tempting to think it was his name on this painting.

  • @cherryllcooper679
    @cherryllcooper679 10 месяцев назад +9

    Loving the longer vids. The shorts are probably a great way to raise interest, but I always look forward to the longer formats.

  • @colleenkidwell5820
    @colleenkidwell5820 10 месяцев назад +11

    I think the signature is J R Smith (John Raphael Smith). He did work in oils and the time period would fit. He died in 1812, so his being ill would fit as well.

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад +3

      I sort of think this too , his style is similar and he fits the dates, the only thing is he seems to be more of a pastellist rather than using oils. However his dates fit the family story and he was working an awful lot in society..

  • @andrzejklikowski4192
    @andrzejklikowski4192 10 месяцев назад +9

    Thank you for another long episode, I hope there will be more of them in the future. know that editing them takes up a lot of your private time, but I think that I'm not the only one who finds long episodes more enjoyable I wish you have a nice day.

  • @kathharper
    @kathharper 10 месяцев назад +5

    Your retouching is appropriately delicate and so well done. I also really enjoy hearing more of the painting's story along with your research and speculation about its painter. The serial nature of your videos gives us a more realistic idea of what it's like actually doing a painting restoration, and at a more realistic pace than most of the other RUclips restoration videos. Great work - and I'm anticipating the next part!

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад

      Thank you so much! I'm glad you are enjoying the series, retouching this week so hopefully have more progress soon

  • @jeanniehorn1500
    @jeanniehorn1500 10 месяцев назад +1

    Does anyone else hold their breath as he starts retouching?

  • @skitzochik
    @skitzochik 2 месяца назад

    Mr. Williamson made this gentleman look exactly like Liberace (the flamboyant pianist)

  • @lindsaymccoll8450
    @lindsaymccoll8450 10 месяцев назад +4

    So glad there’s another video on this gent. And what great history of the painting.

  • @Hertog_von_Berkshire
    @Hertog_von_Berkshire 9 месяцев назад +1

    Dotting in the blemishes - very satisfying. Something I've done in Photoshop many times but never in a real painting.

  • @exciting-burp
    @exciting-burp 10 месяцев назад +7

    Try converting your photograph of the signature to the Lab color space (instead of RGB). Lab is based on eye cone biology, so you might be able to discern more by emphasizing L, a, or b. Yuv is another biological color space that might help. Photoshop supports both if I recall correctly.

  • @m.inthedesert7134
    @m.inthedesert7134 7 месяцев назад +1

    My goodness, The Regency Gent has turned into a handsome man! That five o'clock shadow is quite sexy. Thank you for showing your work in so much detail. It's been very enjoyable

  • @mark314158
    @mark314158 10 месяцев назад +3

    For the signature - make a RAW image of the area and bring that into Photoshop - for maximum dynamic range. Then work with Levels and the usual filters etc.
    Also try making an HDR image.
    And using directional lighting (left, right, top, bottom) and working or combining these images.
    An infinite amount of messing around is possible...😀

  • @kayleencovert1791
    @kayleencovert1791 10 месяцев назад +2

    The change from the beginning to now is amazing. Thank you for sharing the entire process through all of the videos. Some other paintings I have watched are shortened down. And made to a small video. Having this much care into the project but also allowing us to witness every part is something spectacular.

  • @kathycarlson7947
    @kathycarlson7947 10 месяцев назад +2

    Brilliant! Those "eye dots" were bothersome, so I'm eager to see the finished work on them. He's looking mighty handsome now--and even though his story is sad, I am grateful to learn more about him. Kudos!

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you , yes they were bugging me for weeks and I just knew that they weren't right!

  • @frozenfeather13
    @frozenfeather13 10 месяцев назад +4

    This is turning out so good. When I first saw it I thought it was just a mediocre sort of ugly portrait. But now his facial features are gorgeous and so interesting. You're very talented.
    I don't usually comment but I was just thinking today I really enjoy your videos. I appreciate the effort you put into them to share this beautiful art with us. You're very skilled and I love just watching you work. Also helps that you have a very nice voice and you're pretty attractive. All adds up to be an enjoyable part of my week seeing your video. So thank you

  • @a-complished4406
    @a-complished4406 10 месяцев назад +1

    What a handsome chap 😊

  • @adamseckel7480
    @adamseckel7480 10 месяцев назад +2

    William Beechey has a really distinctive flourish in his signature where the B extends under the W much like what’s happening here. Also painted Nelson and the Prince Regent.

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад +1

      I think the style of Beechey is very similar, but maybe more accomplished than this one...

  • @markneary1889
    @markneary1889 10 месяцев назад +3

    Outstanding work. You could do with the assistance of one of the museums with their battery of scanners and non-visible light cameras to assist with the signature conundrum.

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад +4

      I know - I think my client is planning to take it to the National Portrait Gallery once completed so hopefully they may be able to help...

  • @equitime77
    @equitime77 9 месяцев назад

    He's looking full of character now. Almost as if he could walk off the painting into real life

  • @behall464
    @behall464 10 месяцев назад +1

    I so enjoy your channel. This is the most remarkable transformation of an overpainted portrait I've seen! Your warm welcome into your world is like visiting a good friend. You let us follow your research, thoughts and even asking if we might have any thoughts. Today's updated history expands the journey even more. Thank You for bringing us along your journey through restoration and history.

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад

      Thank you so much! I really appreciate your comment. I'm enjoying looking into the history more and more and sharing what I find! it is certainly a journey!!

  • @lornaperryman489
    @lornaperryman489 10 месяцев назад +1

    You must have the patience of Job! I'd go crazy trying to retouch and restore paintings even though I really enjoy watching you work. I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. Thank you so much for sharing.😊

  • @jugheadjones5458
    @jugheadjones5458 10 месяцев назад +3

    Relaxing to listen to you. It’s looking great. Looking forward to the rest! Thank you.

  • @michelemenditto8405
    @michelemenditto8405 10 месяцев назад +2

    I always enjoy your restorations! Bravo.

  • @marileestetson737
    @marileestetson737 9 месяцев назад

    Love your technique 😊

  • @nickimontie
    @nickimontie 10 месяцев назад

    I can't wait to see the finale!

  • @bluewolf7572
    @bluewolf7572 10 месяцев назад

    Cannot wait for the next installment!

  • @nomenome4747
    @nomenome4747 10 месяцев назад +1

    Longer the better

  • @PINTandDALE
    @PINTandDALE 10 месяцев назад

    Good solid progress -- looking SO much better.

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад

      Thank you ! yes he is getting there! the retouching should really no begin to put him back together and make him whole again...

  • @TheGar1968
    @TheGar1968 10 месяцев назад

    Epic

  • @walton909
    @walton909 10 месяцев назад

    Really enjoying your commentary. Thanks for all your hard work

  • @WarrenFahyAuthor
    @WarrenFahyAuthor 10 месяцев назад

    Finesse!

  • @griseldis
    @griseldis 10 месяцев назад +2

    I know it doesn't fit the legend of the family, but the style reminds me a little of the painter Joseph Willibrord Mähler, who painted some pretty famous pictures, for example of Beethoven. I don't know if he was ever in England and for what reason he might have painted this gentleman. At the time of the painting, he was not an old man either, but the style, if you look at the painting of Salieri, for example, looks quite similar to me. For example, the eyes, the shadow of the beard, or even the buttons. But maybe it's just because this kind of portraits were probably painted similarly everywhere in Europe, the fashion for example was the same everywhere. It's really difficult to say.

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад +1

      I see what you mean, similar in background and the dates work, I'm just not sure their paths would have met...

    • @griseldis
      @griseldis 10 месяцев назад

      Exactly, unfortunately you can't ask anyone anymore.

  • @s.h.741
    @s.h.741 10 месяцев назад +1

    Ah, I've been waiting for the fifth part!

  • @favouritemoon4133
    @favouritemoon4133 10 месяцев назад

    Lovely video. Very fine pinpoint work on the face.

  • @lynnedelacy2841
    @lynnedelacy2841 10 месяцев назад

    Love the angle of that button !

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад +1

      Its great isn't it these are the details that just bring a painting to life for me

  • @janegreen9340
    @janegreen9340 10 месяцев назад +1

    Wouldn’t you love to have a chat with Mr Williamson and just ask him “why…?”

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад +1

      I’d take him for a pint and just say now where do you think you should have stopped !!

  • @andrewalt6060
    @andrewalt6060 10 месяцев назад

    It’s a great story, you always wonder how much is true

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад

      I know , Id like to think that a lot of this is true and if not 100% pretty close. I think the basis of the condition would lend itself to how its certainly been cared for...

  • @lesleystratton2635
    @lesleystratton2635 10 месяцев назад +2

    Fascinating to watch you bring the Gentleman back to life, but as I look at the right side of the jaw and down onto the neck there seems to be a heavy, unnatural shape, almost as if there is still over-painting or possibly too heavy a shadow with a heavy outline, is this something you have noticed?

    • @SarahBoyd002
      @SarahBoyd002 10 месяцев назад +1

      I see this too

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад +1

      Yes in that area he has somewhat of a double chin forming and I think some of the shadow does look heavy, I will be able to tell better once I start retouching that area and taking a closer look

    • @lesleystratton2635
      @lesleystratton2635 10 месяцев назад

      @@Bloomfield_Art_Restoration I look forward to seeing the end result, he has the look of Heathcliffe to me.

  • @oh-donut
    @oh-donut 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for telling the history of the painting. Have you contacted the National Portrait Gallery. Hoppner sounds logical. It looks like the signature is J Sant, but the J Sant who was a portrait painter was born in 1820. You are doing a great job!

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад

      Thank you , I think my client had contacted them and may be taking it to them once complete, and yes J.Sant may well be out of the running as the dates are too late...

  • @aidenkenny3169
    @aidenkenny3169 10 месяцев назад +1

    My suggestion is Henry Bone or William Beechey. Thinking that the first letter is an H??? Portraitists of the period. What do you think? Both painted the Prince Regent.

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад

      I can see the similarity in style with Beechey, Ive not heard of Henry Bone I'll have a look, thanks for getting in touch

  • @tracygee
    @tracygee 10 месяцев назад +1

    I think that last name on the signature definitely looks like Smith.

  • @margefield8520
    @margefield8520 10 месяцев назад +2

    Your work is masterful and a pleasure to watch. Are you sure you are not related to this man yourself? There are similarities albeit you are slimmer and more handsome.😉😊

  • @user-sy9im5pn6o
    @user-sy9im5pn6o 10 месяцев назад

    I can't wait to see more!

  • @pinkerbot
    @pinkerbot 9 месяцев назад

    What a wonderful transformation! Is there remains of the chubby cheek the overpainter added on his left side?

  • @Speireata4
    @Speireata4 10 месяцев назад

    For me, before you put your dots, the signature looked something like "W.SAnTS or J.SAnTS. The First letter could also be a U, maybe.

  • @AMADEUSEXMAKINA
    @AMADEUSEXMAKINA 10 месяцев назад

    Could be a portrait of Charles Dodgson a.k.a Lewis Carroll 1832-1898 when he was 38 years old by portraitist James Sant 1820-1916 in 1870

    • @pinkerbot
      @pinkerbot 9 месяцев назад

      I don't think there is question of who the portrait is of...

    • @AMADEUSEXMAKINA
      @AMADEUSEXMAKINA 9 месяцев назад

      @@pinkerbot the signature on the wood in the back looks like lewis carroll's

  • @SarahBoyd002
    @SarahBoyd002 10 месяцев назад

    First letter looks like an M or B to me, especially through the first few filters. M or B SATT (even a possible Z and on end)

  • @AMADEUSEXMAKINA
    @AMADEUSEXMAKINA 10 месяцев назад

    James Sant 1820-1916; The date could be 1870

  • @hewsimons7051
    @hewsimons7051 10 месяцев назад

    The work you have done great. I do have a question, is the background something like a stormy sky or does it just not show well on RUclips? If it’s stormy it really adds to the image of the gent.

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад

      I think it is a stormy background and as you say this seems to match somewhat the temperament of the sitter !

  • @sanaawedding2292
    @sanaawedding2292 10 месяцев назад

    Riveting. A name which springs to mind is Sir John Watson Gordon...? An early work of his opus?

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад

      I can see the similarities it would have to be an early one of his, but yes very similar style and technique..

  • @janeteholmes
    @janeteholmes 10 месяцев назад

    John Hoppner seems a pretty good fit. Some of his sky backgrounds are just like this one. Cheery blue patches along with moody grey patches in what looks like the same colours. His portraits of the Sackville children, Elizabeth Sophia Baillie, and Princess Mary look to have very similar skies to me. I think J Hoppner is consistent with the remains of the signature as well.
    Many of Hoppner’s portraits of gentlemen seem very like Mr Lloyd too. Especially Capt. Henry Blackwood, Sir Thomas Strange, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Major General Sir Henry Willoughby Rooke.

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад

      His backgrounds certainly fit and do have that moody, stprmy look to them with a splash of blue. I just wonder if he is a little too early awhen I look at the paintings they do have a lot of wig action and perhaps this painting is slightly later ...there is one of William Ord (1781-1855) on Art UK that has the same dress though...

  • @stevebrooks4th
    @stevebrooks4th 10 месяцев назад

    Hoppner seems not to have signed many of his paintings, if any.

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад +2

      I'm just googling around and have found one image of a signature the J is similar ....but nothing else so far...I wish all artist would sign their work at least twice!!

  • @DrWhom
    @DrWhom 10 месяцев назад

    prevalent is stressed on the first syllable, with the e of less, illogical as that may seem

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад

      I knew I'd got it wrong sometimes when I'm narrating I can hear my brain working and things seem to slow down mid word! Thanks for your comment though I imagined it spoken in a Mary Poppins style voice!

  • @charwells3243
    @charwells3243 10 месяцев назад

    Could that be a B, maybe Brent.

  • @scorpioplm
    @scorpioplm 10 месяцев назад

    One angle to look at re the artist is quite often the same artist also painted other members of the family so....

    • @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration
      @Bloomfield_Art_Restoration  10 месяцев назад

      We are currently looking at other paintings in the family collection that were sold …thank you for your comment

  • @janwhitworth7895
    @janwhitworth7895 10 месяцев назад

    Do a picture search in Google.

  • @austin12ascot
    @austin12ascot 10 месяцев назад +2

    Please don't be offended, but, there's not enough retouching shown. You must spend hours retouching, so, just set up the camera and let us watch. You don't even need to do a running commentary.

  • @KrisRyanStallard
    @KrisRyanStallard 9 месяцев назад

    Your microphone in the voice over is a little too close to your mouth. Love the video otherwise!