Christina M. O’Connell
Christina M. O’Connell is the Mary Ann and John Sturgeon Senior Paintings Conservator in the preservation department at The Huntington.
Verso
Henry Fuseli, The Three Witches, ca. 1785, oil on canvas, 24 ¾ x 30 ¼ in. (62.9 x 76.8 cm). Purchased with funds from The George R. and Patricia Geary Johnson British Art Acquisition Fund. The…
New painting acquisitions needing care now make a stop in The Huntington's conservation lab before being put on view. In the case of The Three Witches, there was more than met the eye.
In 2012, The…
Frontiers
When The Huntington acquired Henry Fuseli's The Three Witches (ca. 1785) in 2014, I could immediately see clues that there was something to discover beneath its surface.