The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings

and went on board the Prince of Wales fine Barge, Lately built under the

Direction of Lord Baltimore; and being attended by the Officers and

Ladies in Waiting of the Court in another Barge, and a Set of Musik in the

third Barge, they proceeded to Somerset House... there they viewed Mr

Walton’s Progress in cleaning and mending the Royal Pictures.”^4

George IV, when refurbishing Carleton House as prince regent,

spent lavishly on paintings. The attempt to settle the prince’s debts in the

1790s produced accounts from George Simpson for cleaning and repairing

a large number of pictures (Millar 1977:129–30).

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Figure 4
Francisco Ribalta (attrib.), Madonna and Child
with Angels. Oil on panel, 76 3 100 cm.
National Trust, Kingston Lacy House, Dorset.

Figure 5
Francisco Ribalta (attrib.), Madonna and Child
with Angels,reverse.