Aviva Ruth Burnstock (born 1959)[1] 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[2]
In 2011 Burnstock was member of a team that confirmed in the BBC One television series Fake or Fortune? that 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.[3][4] She has since made several appearances on the programme.
She is Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation.[5]
- ^ Aviva Burnstock. Debrett's People of Today, 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013. Archived here.
- ^ Aviva Burnstock. The Courtauld Institute, 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013. Archived here.
- ^ Master forgery: '17th century work exposed as a fake'. by Dalya Alberge, telegraph.co.uk, 2 July 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2013. Archived here.
- ^ The Procuress: Fake or Mistake? Courtauld Institute of Art, 4 July 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2013. Archived here.
- ^ "Professor Aviva Burnstock".