Conservation | Patrick Baty – Historical paint consultant

Stourhead

The Stourton family, the Barons of Stourton, had lived in the Stourhead estate for 700 years when they sold it to Henry Hoare I, son of wealthy banker Sir Richard Hoare in 1717. The original manor house was...

Patrick Baty was commissioned to carry out the paint analysis of the Laigh and High Halls

The House of the Binns, Linlithgow

The House of the Binns is situated on the western slopes of twin hills (in old Scots “binns”) three miles east of Linlithgow. The present house was built between 1612 and 1630 by Thomas Dalyell, an Edinburgh...

Patrick has been consulted on the Governor’s Palace; Peyton Randolph House, St George Tucker House and the Wythe House

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

I have visited Colonial Williamsburg several times on conferences or to lecture. Whenever I am there my opinion is often sought on paint matters. To date I have looked at the Governor’s Palace; Peyton Randolph...

Patrick Baty carried out the analysis of the paint in the Great Conservatory

Syon House

In the 18th century, Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, commissioned architect and interior designer Robert Adam and landscape designer Lancelot "Capability" Brown to redesign the house and estate. Work began...

Patrick carried out the paint analysis on this 'Greek' Thomson house

Holmwood House, Glasgow

Holmwood House was built by Alexander Thomson in 1857-58 near the village of Cathcart, on the southern fringes of Glasgow. The client was James Couper who, with his brother Robert, owned the nearby Millholm paper...

Patrick Baty has been employed on several occasions to advise on the treatment of external surfaces at Ham

Ham House

I have been employed on several occasions to advise on the treatment of external surfaces at Ham House. In the early 1990s I carried out trials with copperas washes on the quoins, which had been painted with a...

Patrick measuring the lower wall with a spectrophotometer

Temple Newsam House, near Leeds

Temple Newsam is a Jacobean house near Leeds. By the time Henry 7th Viscount Irwin (1691-1761) inherited the house on 26 May 1736, it had fallen into disrepair. Indeed, the Inventory of 1702 describes the sole...

Patrick was commissioned to carry out the paint analysis of the Tapestry Drawing Room and Large Library

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Goodwood

The first Duke of Richmond (1672-1723) bought Goodwood as a hunting Lodge in 1697. Part of the Jacobean house survives in the form of the present Long Hall. It was the third Duke (1735-1806) who was responsible...

Patrick Baty was asked to assist with the analysis of the paint on the walls of the Lansdowne House and Kirtlington Park Dining Rooms

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Robert Adam's Lansdowne House Dining Room I was asked to assist with the analysis of the paint on the walls of two rooms that had been removed from English houses in the 1930s - the Lansdowne House and Kirtlington...

Patrick Baty carried out the paint analysis on the interior and exterior

Broughton House, Kirkcudbright

Broughton House is a mid-eighteenth century house in the town of Kirkcudbright. From 1901 to 1933 the artist Edward Atkinson Hornel lived and worked there. He was one of the 'Glasgow Boys' who were influenced by...

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