Byron Webb

This painting had been stood on its edge in a damp place for some time. The canvas had disintegrated and the paint flaking and bleached. I conditioned the painting for a week before strip lining the damaged portion. Then just filled the holes and painted the 'lost' areas.

I had an old frame, which I hadn't the heart to throw out and it fitted the painting in size and period perfectly. What wasn't perfect was its condition. It lacked most of its moulding. Still the painting was in terrible condition and the frame awful, a marriage made in heaven.

Taking casts of the intact moulding

...and modelling in plasticine missing elements...

Byron Webb 1831–1867. Stag in Moonlight.