![]() I then carved sample sections which I took up to the Bowes Museum in the November, and after this successful meeting I was given the go-ahead to begin carving the frame. Following this, in September 2017 a Memorandum of Agreement was reached, and, after feedback on my initial designs in October (which included a modification of the brief), I redesigned the frame almost completely. In August 2017, after researching the Auricular style by looking at further examples of frames in Ham House, Richmond, and in the National Portrait Gallery, I made drawings of my design and sent them to the Bowes Museum in a presentation document. Rollo was able to help me with this commission by allowing me to use an early 17th century British Auricular frame to study, and as a model in my early designs. ![]() I worked as his assistant for five years, gaining skills in restoration, gilding and toning, and – above all – a love for antique frames. Before I started my ornamental woodcarving course I worked for the well-known framemaker and dealer Rollo Whately, whose workshop in the West End of London is a treasure-trove of beautiful antique frames. There were specifications within the brief: one of the historic frame styles deemed suitable for the painting was Auricular, and I decided that I would create a frame in this style.Īs a woodcarver at the beginning of my career, to have the opportunity to re-frame a Van Dyck portrait is dream commission, especially as I have a particular interest in and history working with picture frames. It resulted from a competition which the Bowes Museum instituted in May 2017, for a wood-carving student from the City & Guilds of London Art School to present a design for such a frame the winner of the commission would then carve the piece as a final year project. This journal is a record of the process of designing and making a new frame for a portrait by Van Dyck belonging to the Bowes Museum in Durham. Borys Burrough’s record of the designing, carving and gilding of a new Auricular frame for a rediscovered Van Dyck portrait.
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