Some of the Work that we Carry Out

By Appointment to
Her Majesty The Queen
Architectural Paint Specialists
Papers and Paints Ltd
London

On 1st January 2007

Papers and Paints
were granted a
Royal Warrant of Appointment
to Her Majesty The Queen
 PAPERS and PAINTS
• Enormous range of paint colours
• Friendly advice
• Colour matching
• Consultancy on historical decoration
• Established nearly 50 years
PAPERS and PAINTS
• Family business
• Founded by Robert Baty
in 1960
• Run by his son Patrick
for over 25 years
 Patrick Baty

Since completing a
research degree that
focussed on the 18th
century housepainter’s
methods and materials
Patrick has advised on a
considerable range of
restoration projects in
the UK and USA
 Patrick Baty
Patrick comes from a line of colourists – his
great grandfather, the artist Robert Polhill
Bevan, was described by a former director of
the National Gallery as being “perhaps the
first Englishman to use pure colour in the
20th Century”
Bevan’s wife, Stanisława de Karłowska, also
a successful artist combined a modernist
style with colours inspired by her native
Poland
Patrick has carried out extensive research into the use
of pigments in architectural and decorative painting
 Patrick Baty has written, taught and
lectured on the use of paint and colour in
architecture for many years

He is a member of the Executive

Committee of the Georgian Group and a
Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts
and of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland
Patrick Baty has run a number of paint workshops in
the UK and USA during the last fifteen years
Patrick and his team of arts graduates have
great experience in the use of paint and
colour in buildings old and new

Apart from advising on and mixing paint

colours Papers and Paints can also assist
with the following….
 Colour Matching

• Existing paint
• Wallpapers and fabrics
• Other objects
• Either in the shop or on site
 Colour Matching

We are often asked to reproduce obsolete colours

 Corporate Colour Work

• Corporate Colours
• Shop Fronts & Fascias
 Estate Colours
• Identifying Earlier Colour
• Advice on New Colour
• Experience throughout the UK
 Paint Analysis
• To establish how a room once looked
• To date a structure
• To guide the redecoration of an early
building
 Colour Surveys
• Colour measurements taken
• Existing colours identified
• Maintenance schedule prepared
• Great savings in time and expense
 Colour Consultancy
• Nearly 20 years experience on some of the
most prestigious restoration projects
• Consultant to the Crown, Government and
many National and private institutions
• Many private clients in the UK and USA
 Colour Ranges Developed
• Heritage range designed for Dulux
• New range for English Heritage
• Ranges for the French & German markets
• Our own paint ranges
 Colour Ranges

Dulux Heritage Range

1994
Colour Ranges

Little Greene /
English Heritage
Range

2005
 Traditional Colours
This range is based
on a set of hand-
painted colour cards
that date from 1807.
They reflect a
number of colours in
use during the 18th
and early 19th
centuries
Set of eight cards £10
 Traditional Colours
Some of the original colour
cards from 1807 and the
ruins of the house in whose
archives they were found
 Historical Colours

These are based on a

work of 1934, which
shows a selection of
colours used on
artefacts over the ages
Historical Colours

The colours of
ancient Egypt were
limited. Here a
couple of reds from
haematite, a green
from malachite and a
blue from cobalt or
copper can be seen
 Historical Colours

Papers and Paints brought

out this range of historical
colours in the mid 1980s.
They were the first of such
ranges to have appeared
on the market in recent
years

Set of fourteen cards £12

1950s Colours

This range is based on

some of the colours that
we were selling when we
opened in 1960

Set of six cards £8

 1950s Colours

Some of the colour cards that we used in the 1960s

 Paint Analysis

Small samples of paint are removed from

representative elements of the room being examined
 Paint Analysis

The samples are set in a clear resin and numbered

 Paint Analysis

When the resin has set the block is cut through and polished
 Paint Analysis

The samples are then examined under high magnification

 Paint Analysis

A series of green schemes found on a garden door on a

Scottish estate
 Paint Analysis

Occasionally further
tests are required to
establish the
composition of a paint
layer. Here the
scanning electron
microscope confirms
that a paint is made up
of lead and zinc with
small quantities of chalk
and barytes added as an
extender
 Colour Measurement

We are frequently asked to match the existing paint

colour on an object. Here a sentry box at Kensington
Palace is being measured with a spectrophotometer
 Colour Measurement

Over the last twelve years we have measured and

stored several hundred thousand paint colours with
the spectrophotometer. These are stored on a PC and
close matches can be found for most new colours
 Paint Analysis
Brodie Castle
Moray

We were asked to
identify the first
scheme in the 1820s
drawing room
 Paint Analysis

Brodie Castle, Drawing Room – the walls,

joinery and ceiling were originally grained in
imitation of oak
Colour Measurement

Apsley House
 Colour Measurement

Apsley House
Gate piers painted to match Portland stone. We have
also carried out a colour survey of the interior
 Paint Analysis
BBC
& Radio Theatre
 Colour Survey
Boodles’
St James’s

Paints matched to
existing and
maintenance
schedule prepared
 Colour Measurement

Royal Naval College

Greenwich

Painted Hall

Survey of existing
colours to produce a
scheme for the dado
 Colour Measurement

Royal Naval College

Greenwich

Painted Hall

An average was made of

the existing colours on
the upper walls and a
match produced for the
dado
 Colour Survey

Brooks’s, St James’s
A survey was made of the existing paint colours
and a maintenance schedule prepared
 Paint Analysis
Handel House

Home to the composer

George Frideric Handel
from 1723 to 1759
Colour Measurement

Wilton House
 Colour Measurement

A fragment of the wall surface

on a paint matched to the
overall colour of the stippled
finish
Wilton House
Little Smoking Room
 Colour Survey
Each web of the
vaulted ceiling had
been painted in a
different colour
when John Fowler
supervised the
decoration in the
1960s. We carried
out a survey in order
to be able to
reproduce the
colours
Wilton House
Wyatt Cloisters
 Paint Analysis
Holmwood House
Glasgow

Considered the finest

domestic design by the
architect Alexander
‘Greek’ Thomson
Paint Analysis

Holmwood House
Cupola over stairs

The cupola was

decorated on about nine
occasions since 1857-58.
Gilding was employed
on the third occasion
 Paint Analysis

Holmwood House
Dining Room

The deep pink of the

first oil-based scheme
was composed of
vermilion and red iron
oxide
Paint Analysis

Holmwood House
Entrance Hall

This stencilled scheme was

discovered to be the fifth, not
the first as had been believed
 Paint Analysis

Travellers’ Club
Pall Mall

Analysis and colour

matching carried out
over the last 15 years
Paint Analysis

Greenbank, Glasgow
 Colour Matching

St James’s Palace
Surfaces matched in various parts of the building
 Paint Analysis

Royal Pavilion
Brighton

Blue Verditer pigment in

dispersion viewed under
a polarising microscope
Paint Analysis

Hammersmith Bridge
 Paint Analysis

All elements were sampled View from the top

Hammersmith Bridge
 Paint Analysis
Golden Lane Estate
London

We were asked to identify

the 1962 colour schemes for
this newly-listed housing
estate
Paint Analysis

Golden Lane Estate

Colour Measurement
Downing Street

Initially we were
asked to match the
colour of a sentry box.
Other colour work has
also been carried out
on the interior
 Paint Analysis

Culzean Castle, Ayrshire

 Paint Analysis

Culzean Castle, Ayrshire

 Paint Analysis

The exposed “blue”

can be seen under
the microscope

The weathered blue was a

green when first applied

Culzean Castle, Ayrshire

 Historical Consultancy
Tryon Palace
North Carolina
USA

A visit to advise on the

appropriate decoration
for this 1950s
recreation of the
original State Capitol
 Paint Analysis
House of the Binns
West Lothian

We carried out the

analysis of the Laigh
Hall and the High Hall
 Paint Analysis

Syon House
Great Conservatory

The original scheme of

1827 was revealed
Colour and Technical Advice

A House in Southern Ireland

 Colour and Technical Advice

A House in Southern
Ireland

Numerous visits were made

during the five year
restoration of this house.
Advice was given on
appropriate colours and
types of paint
 Paint Analysis
Bennehan House
North Carolina
USA

Analysis of a small
plantation house.
Venue of several
paint workshops run
by Patrick Baty of
Papers and Paints
 Paint Workshops
Bennehan House
North Carolina
USA

Following the analysis we

made the paint and then
applied it
Colour Measurement
Foreign Office

Not only did we identify

the original colour of
the external ironwork,
but we have also
matched paint in
various locations
 Paint Analysis
Artillery Lane
Spitalfields

The finest 18th

century
shopfront in
London
 Paint Analysis
Artillery Lane, Spitalfields

Scanning Electron
Cross section of paint Microscope print-out
Analysis and Historical Advice

Hampton Court Palace

Privy Garden
 Paint Analysis

Royal Festival Hall

We were asked to identify

the 1951 decorative
scheme for the
refurbishment
 Royal Festival Hall
Bright red was found juxtaposed
with dull green
 Paint Workshops
Eastfield Village
New York
USA

Five day courses run

by Matt Mosca and
Patrick Baty of Papers
and Paints
 Paint Analysis

Newhailes, East Lothian

 Paint Analysis
Newhailes
East Lothian

We established that the

Dining Room had last
been painted in 1873 and
that it was not the
original scheme of 1739
that had survived
 Paint Analysis

Newhailes, East Lothian

Until our investigation it was thought that this house had been
untouched by time
 Colour Survey
Syon Park
Great Hall

The painted scheme of

John Fowler has been
measured to enable a
seamless repaint
 Paint Analysis
Benjamin Franklin
House

We identified the decorative

schemes that existed when the
house was occupied by
Benjamin Franklin
 Benjamin Franklin House

The railings were

found to have been
painted grey on the
first four occasions

Cross section of paint

from front railings
 Historical Consultancy
Kew Palace

We have been
employed to
advise on the
restoration of the
painted schemes
that existed when
occupied by King
George III
Colour Measurement

Kew Palace
 Analysis and Colour Survey
Lancaster House

We carried out the

analysis of the
Grand Hall and the
Long Gallery. A
colour survey was
also made of the
State Rooms
 Paint Analysis
Lancaster House
“Bronzed” Atlas in the lantern

First “bronzed” scheme

Cross section of paint

from “bronzed”
element. It had been
painted twice
 Historical Consultancy
A private house in
Charleston
South Carolina
USA

Patrick Baty was asked

to assist an American
paint analyst and to
prepare a paint
specification
 Paint Analysis

Royal Naval College, Greenwich – Chapel Vestibule

 Paint Analysis

Royal Naval College

Greenwich

Chapel Vestibule

The initial scheme was a

stone-coloured distemper.
This was later replaced by a
similar colour in oil paint

Plaster Distemper
Colour Matching

Kensington Palace
Orangery
Colour Matching

Kensington Palace
Orangery

A wooden plinth had

been built to prevent the
base of the statue being
damaged. We were asked
to produce a textured
paint in a colour to match
the Portland stone base
 Colour Matching

Kensington Palace, Orangery

The walls and panelling were measured in order to
produce matching paint colours
 Analysis and Colour Matching
Dover House
The Scottish Office

We carried out the

analysis of the Rotunda
and matched paint
colours in the Scottish
Secretary’s Office
 Paint Analysis
Hill of Tarvit
Fife

The external
decoration of all the
buildings on this early
20th century estate
was established
 Paint Analysis
Hill of Tarvit, Fife

Stables – panelling by hay heck Layers of paint on panelling – original

was a pale stone colour
 Paint Analysis
Hill of Tarvit, Fife

External face of
stable door – dark
blue now although
grained originally
 Paint Analysis

Welsh Non-Conformist Chapel

Oswestry
 Paint Analysis

Gilding on internal columns

Early stencilling

Welsh Non-Conformist Chapel

 Paint Analysis
Athenaeum Club
London

We carried out an
analysis of the paint on
the external stucco and
the gilded statue of
Athena
 Paint Analysis
Temple Newsam
near Leeds

We identified the 1740s

decorative scheme in
the Picture Gallery and
proved that the original
flock paper had been
green
 Paint Analysis

Fragment of
green flock
trapped on
primer

Temple Newsam – Picture Gallery

Cross Section
 Paint Analysis
26-31 Charlotte Square
Edinburgh

We were employed to
investigate the decorative
schemes applied to the inside
and outside of six adjacent
buildings in the New Town
 Colour Consultancy
Windsor Castle
Berkshire

We have carried out

various projects in the
Castle
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