Museums | Patrick Baty – Historical paint consultant

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 was commissioned to carry out the paint analysis of the interior and exterior of the house

The Benjamin Franklin House

The stairs - note that this was taken before the glaze was applied (see below) Craven Street was originally known as Spur Alley until it was redeveloped by William Craven, afterwards 5th Baron Craven, from 1728. 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 Baty was commissioned to carry out the paint analysis of the early interiors

Foundling Museum

The Foundling Hospital was designed by Theodore Jacobsen with possible influence from Roger Morris and the 9th Earl of Pembroke. The interiors were predictably plain and austere, except for the administration and...

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 advised on colours for this recreated Governor's Palace

Tryon Palace, New Bern

I was employed to provide advice on the decoration and to discuss matters of presentation in this modern reconstruction of the historical colonial royal governors' palace of the Province of North Carolina. View...

Patrick Baty has helped the Regency Town House Museum for many years

Brunswick Square, Hove

Over the years I have been assisting the Regency Town House with matters concerning paint and colour. On a personal level I have also lent the curatorial team a collection of family letters from 1824-1870, many of...

Patrick Baty has measured the colours in the house to allow for their reproduction

Apsley House

Apsley House is a museum and art gallery on the south-east corner of Hyde Park. It was originally built by Robert Adam between 1771 and 1778 for Lord Apsley. In 1807 it was bought by Richard Wellesley, 1st...

The Sir John Soane’s Museum

The architect Sir John Soane’s house, museum and library at No. 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields has been a public museum since the early 19th century. Soane demolished and rebuilt three houses in succession on the north...

The Old Royal Observatory

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was commissioned in 1675 by King Charles II and is best known as the location of the prime meridian. I advised on the colour of the time ball (the red-painted ball on the roof -...

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