International Projects

Tata portraits from the European collection of CSMVS

Sir Dorabji Tata Trust Fund granted the CSMVS funds to restore four family portraits from the European collection.

The CSMVS invited conservators Abraham Joel and Barbara Bertieri to undertake that project

Tata portraits cleaning
Cleaning in progress
Detail during cleaning test
Detail during cleaning test
Tata-portaits-pre-post-detail2
Detail before restoration

The paintings are:
33.72 Edwin Arthur Ward (1860-1933) Portrait of the Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata (1839-1904), oil on canvas (1889).  The portrait was painted on the 50th year of J.N.Tata

33.73 Sir John Lavery RA (1856-1941), Portrait of Lady Dorabji Tata (1879-1931), oil on canvas executed posthumously in 1932

Before restoration (33.72)
Before restoration (33.72)
After restoration (33.72)
After restoration (33.72)

33.75 William Ewart Gladston Solomon, Portrait of Lady Dorabji Tata (1879-1931), gouache on paper

22.4637 James Jebus Shannon (1862-1923), Portrait of Lady Ratan Tata (1877-1965), oil on canvas