Aviva Burnstock


Aviva Ruth Burnstock is head of the Department of Art Conservation & Technology at the Courtauld Institute, London. Burnstock is a graduate of the University of Sussex and took in 1991 a PhD at the Courtauld Institute
In 2011 Burnstock was member of a team that confirmed in the BBC One television serie 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 30s or 40s of the 20th century.
She is Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation.

Personal life

She is the daughter of the neurobiologist Geoffrey Burnstock and married since 1989 to Hugh Sebag-Montefiore.

Selected publications