Aviva Burnstock
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Aviva Ruth Burnstock (born 1959)[1] is head of the Department of Art Conservation & Technology at the Courtauld Institute, London. Professor Burnstock is a graduate of the University of Sussex (BSc. Neurobiology 1981) and took in 1991 a PhD at the Courtauld Institute[2]
In 2011 Burnstock was member of a team that confirmed in the BBC One television series Fake or Fortune? that the painting The Procuress in the Courtauld's collection – a version of a 1622 work by Dirck van Baburen now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – is an Oil paint-Bakelite forgery by Han van Meegeren made in the 1930s or 1940s.[3][4] She has since made several appearances on the programme.
She is Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation.[5]
