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Tracy Liu recently completed a one-year internship in Paintings Conservation at the Rijksmuseum as part of her final year of master's study in Conservation at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. In this presentation, she highlights key points from the art historical and technical investigation of Jan van Scorel’s Portrait of a Man from Haarlem, completed in preparation for treatment for the upcoming 'Forget Me Not' special exhibit. This presentation will conclude with a brief look at the current state of its treatment progress.

Francesca Di Cicco is a PhD candidate in the perception intelligence lab at TU Delft. She is part of the NICAS project “Recipes and Realities” where she works on the psychophysical understanding of visual material perception in 17th century paintings, by identifying and quantifying the image features exploited by Dutch Golden Age painters. In this presentation she talks about her research on the material signatures of fabrics depicted in 17th century paintings .

Esther van Duijn is painting’s conservator and researcher, who has specialized in the history of paintings conservation at the Rijksmuseum. She gives a presentation on the traditions and developments in the wax-resin lining method used in the Rijksmuseum.

In this presentation, Luc Megens presents his research Uranium glaze on Dutch Art Nouveau and Art Deco Pottery. This research has made it possible to understand the production and identify the composition of a universally collected Dutch ceramic product and improve the awareness of the measures that need to be taken by those working with such collections.

Fréderique Broers, a PhD student in the NICAS project “3D understanding of degradation products in paintings”, gives a presentation on New insights into the degradation of arsenic sulfide degradation using synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy.

Manon Castelle presents the results of the technical investigations of the Weepers statues and the recumbent effigy of Isabella of Bourbon which provide new insights into both the organisation of the workshop involved and the technical context of production.

Tamar Hestrin-Grader gives an introduction on the 1640IR Muselaar Project: an example of interdisciplinary, international, and inter-institutional object-centered research.

Paolo d’Imporzano presents the latest development in lead isotope analysis: technical improvements reducing the sample size required and heterogeneity and variation in lead isotopes in 17th-century Dutch paintings.