The Wallace Collection is a national museum in an historic London town house. In 25 galleries are unsurpassed displays of French 18th-century painting, furniture and porcelain with superb Old Master paintings and a world class armoury.
Chocolate FIlms has been working with the Wallace Collection since 2011, producing documentaries with subjects as diverse as the conservation of Marie-Antoinette’s commode, and the restoration of the entire Dutch galleries.
Chocolate Films were commissioned to make a film about the The Reynolds Research Project – a major research project launched by The Wallace Collection to research and conserve its 12 magnificent Joshua Reynolds paintings.
For a year, we followed on the conservation work taking place on Joshua Reynolds’ portrait of Nelly O’Brien, following the work of the Paintings Conservator of the Wallace Collection, Alexandra Gent. In this film she goes through the specific processes involved in painting conservation as she works in the conservation studio of the National Gallery.
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