Pauline Plummer

(British, b.1933)

Street in Bruges, 1962

oil on canvas

62 x49 cm

in a period frame.

Exhibited

London, New English Art Club, 1962, no.61.

Provenance

The Artist's Estate, 2025.

This “street in Bruges” was painted by the artist when she was briefly living in the city in 1962, restoring the alterpiece by Jan van Eyck. Although Plummer was first and foremost a picture conservator, she had aspirations as an artist, and exhibited this painting at the New English Art Club.

Plummer studied Fine Art at the University of Reading 1951-1955. She was awarded a three-year studentship by the Council for the Care of Churches to study conservation of paintings and for two years Pauline attended the Courtauld Institute of Art Technology Department, headed by Professor Stephen Rees Jones. In her long career as a conservator she has worked extensively all over the country on many notable restoration projects in a wide variety of locations from stately homes, colleges, churches and cathedrals, including for the National Trust and English Heritage.