The 19th c. is as good a place to begin as any.
 
1847 saw the publication of Eastlake's <Materials for a History of Oil
Painting>, since reprinted by Dover under the title, <Methods and
Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters>.
 
Mrs. Merrifield's <Original Treatises on the Arts of Painting> was
published in 1849.
 
More recently, the Journal, <Museum> vols. III, Nos. 2,3, and IV, No.
(1950, 51) published a series of articles concerning the care of
paintings.
 
Norman Brommelle wrote, "Material for a History of Conservation" which
was published in <Studies in Conservation>, vol. II, No. 4 (Oct., 1956).
 
Sheldon Keck wrote, "Further Materials for a History of Conservation", in
<Preprints> (of papers presented at the fourth annual meeting of AIC) in
1976.
 
Caroline Keck wrote, "The Position of the Conservator in the Last Quarter
of the Twentieth Century" for vol. 18, No. 1 (1978) for <Journal of the
American Institute for Conservation>.
 
Preprints of the Washington Congress (1982) of the International
Institute for Conservation are entitled <Science and Technology in the
Service of Conservation>.
 
Sheldon Keck wrote, "Some Picture Cleaning Controversies: Past and
Present", for vol. 23, No. 2 (1984) for the <Journal of the American
Institute for Conservation>.
 
 
Jack C. Thompson
Thompson Conservation Lab
Portland, OR
 
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