{"id":64070,"date":"2017-08-20T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/doctor-hue-the-paint-guru\/"},"modified":"2017-08-20T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T05:10:13","slug":"doctor-hue-the-paint-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/doctor-hue-the-paint-guru\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor hue: the paint guru"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAfter years as a special forces soldier, Patrick Baty became a leading expert on historical paint. Ed Cumming meets him When Patrick Baty took over his family\u2019s paint shop, Papers and Paints, in 1981, he noticed customers had lots of questions about historic paint. What colours would their homes have originally been painted? What pigments were available to the Georgians? And what about in Queen Victoria\u2019s time?Often, he found, he didn\u2019t know the answers. It was hardly his fault. The field of historic paint, outside of a few highly specialised niches, didn\u2019t yet exist. So Baty set about inventing it. He enrolled in a course of independent study, identified 100 or so original sources, and began a dissertation that swelled from 10,000 words to 80,000 on the methods and materials of the house-painter between 1650 and 1850. \u201cI like having answers,\u201d he says. \u201cI knew I was creating a reference library for myself that I would be able to draw on. Also, part of me probably had a chip on my shoulder about not having been to university. In those days army officers went straight to Sandhurst.\u201d Continue reading…
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