Clare is an accredited member of Icon, the UK Institute for Conservation and a Fellow of the IIC, International Institute for Conservation.
With 50 years’ experience she has built up a specialist knowledge of techniques and conservation problems not only of the Old Masters but also the Major Impressionists, Post Impressionists, Russian avant-garde as well as Modern British Paintings.
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Biography
Clare Finn
Dr. Clare Finn has been a conservator for over 50 years. Trained initially in the North East of England, then in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. She set up and ran the conservation department at Coventry Museums, before becoming a consultant to Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art department, which she held for 30 years.
She also undertook a doctorate on Picasso’s Decorative Metalwork at London’s Royal College of Art, and has contributed to exhibitions in Europe, publishing research in Apollo and the Burlington Magazine. She is part of the Picasso Bronze Project with the Musée National Picasso, Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago.