Zahira Véliz trained as a conservator of paintings at the Intermuseum Conservation Laboratory,
receiving an M.A. from Oberlin College in 1978. She began working as a freelance conservator in
Spain, collaborating extensively with the World Monuments Fund and the Royal Foundation of
Toledo, and working in the conservation department of the Prado Museum in Madrid. She has
taught at the Courtauld Institute, London, and at University College, London. Since 1990 she has
been working privately in London and Spain, lecturing and writing on technical aspects of
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish painting.
Jørgen Wadumreceived a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Copenhagen in
- He graduated with his B.Sc. (1982) and M.Sc. (1987) in conservation from the School of
Conservation, Copenhagen. He has worked as a freelance paintings conservator since 1983 and
worked at Rosenborg Palace, Copenhagen, in 1987–88. In 1989 he was employed as a lecturer at
the School of Conservation and at the University of Copenhagen. From 1990 to the present, he
has been chief conservator of paintings at the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague. He
is also the coordinator of the International Council of Museums Committee for Conservation
Working Group on Scientific Study of Paintings: Methods and Techniques.
Philip Walkeris a practical worker in wood with a special interest in the historical and contem-
porary use of tools and techniques of various trades and cultures. He has written and lectured
widely on these subjects. In 1987 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
He is president of the Tool and Trades History Society, founded in 1983, which has members in
eighteen countries worldwide.
Donald C. Williams has been a furniture restorer and conservator since 1972; his particular
interests are in coating and adhesive materials. He received a B.A. in the technology of artistic
and historic objects from the University of Delaware and joined the Conservation Analytical
Laboratory (CAL) of the Smithsonian Institution in 1984 as furniture conservator. He later
became senior furniture conservator. He is currently coordinator of education and training
progr ams at CAL.
Antoine M. Wilmeringreceived his training in furniture conservation under the aegis of the
State Training Programme for Conservators in the Netherlands. He was awarded internships in
the Historical Museum of Amsterdam and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and
received his certificate in Furniture Conservation from the Ministry of Culture in 1983. He was
furniture conservator at Rijksmuseum Paleis Het Loo in the Netherlands before being hired in
1987 by the Department of Objects Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York,to direct the conservation treatment of the Gubbio studiolo. He is conservator at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and is responsible for overseeing the work of the furniture conser-
vation staffin the Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation.
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