Aviva Burnstock

Aviva Ruth Burnstock (born 1959) 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

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. She has since made several appearances on the programme.

She is Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation. Provided by Wikipedia