Painting and Sculpture

Aviva Burnstock

Aviva Ruth Burnstock (born 1959) is head of the Department of Art Conservation & Technology at the Courtauld Institute, London. Professor Burnstock is a graduate of the University of Sussex (BSc. Neurobiology 1981) and took in 1991 a PhD at the Courtauld Institute Burnstock has been featured in several episodes of the BBC One television series Fake or Fortune?, including the third episode of the first series where Burnstock in 2011 was member of a team that confirmed the painting The Procuress in the Courtauld's collection – a version of a 1622 work by Dirck van Baburen now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – is an Oil paint-Bakelite forgery by Han van Meegeren made in the 1930s or 1940s. She is Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation.

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• ▸Charles Sims (painter)
• ▸Aphrodite Rhithymnia
• ▸Hilda Annetta Walker

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