'Tales of the unexpected' : in paintings conservation

Introduction / Hayley Tomlinson -- Tudor portraits ofthe Le Strange family of Hunstanton: Sir Thomas Le Strange (1493/4-1545)/ Emma Boyce Gore -- Shedding the centuries: the rediscovery of an early sixteenth-cetury banco / Molly Hughes-Hallett -- Intergration of macro X-ray fluorescence scanning and reflectance hyperspectral imaging into research and conservation activities at the National Gallery, London / Marta Melchiorre Di Crescenzo, Catherine Higgitt, Rachel Billinge and Marika Spring -- Discovering Beuckelaer? / Alice Tate-Harte and Rachel Turnbull -- Cracking the Dutch painter Jan van der Heyden's 'art secret' / Jae Youn Chung, Mary Kempski and David Peggie -- When is a landscape not a landscape? When it's a portrait! / Miranda Brain and Jon Old -- Sometimes the unexpected is as good as gold: discovery of gilded elements in Tiepolo's Bacchus and Ariadne / Sarah G. Murray and Barbara H. Berrie -- Revealing secrets of 'Three Figures Dressed for a Masquerade' attributed to Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain / Joanna Strombek -- Turner's unknown portraits / Susan Breen, Joyce Townsend and Ian Warrell -- An unexpected product of the George Dawe painting factory / Rosanna de Sancha -- Examing Édouard Manet's 'Le Déjeunersur l'herbe' from the Courtauld Gallery using spectral imaging techniques / Silvia Rita Amato, Maureen Cross, Aviva Burnstock, Koen Janssens, Joris Dik, Laura Cartechini, Anne Michelin and Aurélie Tournié -- Conception, idiosyncrasy and immateriality in the London paintings of Matthijs Maris (1839-1917): challenges in interpretation and conversation / Laura Raven and Erma Hermens -- A brief comparative study between some of Tate's collection of Léger paintings / Francesca Secchi -- What lies beneath: technical discoveries, intention and practice in the early work of Mark Gertler / Aviva Burnstock and Sarah MacDougall.