Christine Slottved Kimbriel

Assistant to the Director/Senior Painting Conservator

Christine achieved a BA in the History of Art from the University of Aarhus in 2004 and graduated with a degree in Conservation-Restoration Science from the School of Conservation, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, in 2007. She undertook a two-year internship in the conservation of easel paintings at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, where she proceeded to take up a full-time position as Paintings Conservator in 2009.

Christine has a particular interest in the structural treatment of panel supports and in the developing field of conservation of modern and contemporary paintings. Christine undertakes conservation and restoration of easel paintings and related research at the Institute and in situ, and she acts as supervisor on work undertaken by students and interns. She also oversees the monitoring and control of the environmental conditions of studios and stores.

Christine has worked extensively on English 16th and early 17th century panel paintings and is keenly interested in artistic practices of the Tudor and Stuart period. She is presently engaged in collaborative research on establishing an oeuvre for Meynnart Wewyck, court painter to Henry VII, through technical analytical means. She is also co-investigator on the project Secrets of a Silent Miniaturist: Technical Analysis of Isaac Oliver's Miniatures, and will be undertaking collaborative technical research on miniatures by Isaac Oliver (c.1565-1617) from numerous collections supported by a British Academy/Leverhulme small research grant, with match funding from the Fitzwilliam Museum Marlay Group, until summer 2021.

Email: csr32@cam.ac.uk