Isabel Horovitz trained as a paintings conservator at the Courtauld Institute of Art having obtained a BA in the History of Art at University College London. Isabel is an Accredited Conservator-Restorer and a founder member of The Painting Conservation Studio, London. She is a consultant conservator to the Royal Academy of Arts for the major loans exhibitions and for the RA Collection. Isabel was a major catalogue contributor to the exhibition Copper as Canvas: Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper, 1525-1775, (Phoenix, Kansas City, The Hague, 1998-1999). She has taught at University College London and the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Jørgen Wadum is director of Wadum Art Technological Studies and a Specialty Advisor of Dutch & Flemish art at the Nivaagaard Collection, Nivå. Until 2020 he was director of the Centre for Art Technological Studies and Conservation (CATS), a research infrastructure between Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), The National Museum of Denmark, and the School of Conservation (KADK), Copenhagen. He held the position as full Professor in Conservation & Restoration at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, 2012-2016. From 2005-2017 he was Director of Conservation at SMK and from 1990 through 2004 he was Chief Conservator at the Mauritshuis, The Hague.

Anne Schmid is a graduate of Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland, where she earned a Master of Art in Conservation-Restoration of paintings and sculptures in 2013. Before and during her study years, she interned at both private studios and public institutions across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain. She gained experience in the field of seventeenth and eighteenth century oil painting through her Master’s research on copper supports with additional silver-colored metal layers, and a year-long project on a painting by Murillo at the National Gallery of Ireland. Anne has been working as Paintings Conservator at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam since July this year, after spending the last three and a half years at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, as Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Painting Conservation. Her primary focus is on the conservation and restoration of modern and contemporary paintings.