Il Restauro

Very pleased with Il Restauros beautiful cleaning, conservation and restoration of our badly damaged Victorian oil painting and flaked gilded wood and plaster frame. Rosaria Trivellini’s background, training, portfolio demonstrating her skills, professional and client references confirmed she had the necessary expertise to complete our delicate task. Before commencing work, Rosaria carefully examined our painting and its frame and reported on its overall condition. We learned a lot about our painting, the painter and the techniques he used. She then proposed different treatment options with explanations of the result of each and their varying costs. This enabled us to decide on a course of conservation that would best preserve the painting and suit our budget and plans. Rosaria kept us updated on progress throughout which was very exciting. We are delighted with the finished result which is beyond our expectations. The preserved painting can now be enjoyed by future generations. Throughout the process we found Rosaria very knowledgeable about art history, historical and modern artists' materials, their chemical structure and behaviour and the scientific methods available for examining, restoring and preserving objects of art. Working with Rosaria was a pleasure and we highly recommend her studio Il Restauro.

Rosaria at Il Restauro has assisted many of our clients with paintings and gilt frames conservation projects. We can’t praise her enough for the 5 star service she has always provides.

I was so happy to find Rosaria. She works with such care and expertise, bringing back lovely old paintings from their decrepit state, removing the centuries of grime and poorly applied old varnishes, so they look as vibrant as when they left the artist's easel. She is a lovely person, really interested in pictures. To date she has restored seven or eight pieces for me, mainly from the 18th C., and her work has been excellent, really first rate.

Rosaria has done a fantastic job restoring several pictures and two frames for us. I couldn't rate her or her work more highly and she is competitively priced as well as being very professional to deal with.

We are absolutely happy with some restoration work we had done on behalf of one of our clients. Il Restauro worked on an old masterpiece, which unfortunately due to bad storage, had suffered water damage and a small tear on a weaker canvas. Cannot impress upon how brilliant and talented this restorer is as the painting looks just as it should do. We will certainly use this service again.