Maartje Stols-Witlox

Maartje Stols-Witlox is Associate Professor of Painting Conservation and Restoration. She also coordinates the University of Amsterdam’s Master’s programme in Painting Conservation and Restoration and is part of its management team. She works at all levels of university education, including PhD supervision.

She specialises in the research of historical paintings, with a particular focus on paint recipes and their reconstruction using ‘historically informed’ materials. She has published extensively on issues relating to historic grounds in Northwest Europe, on reconstruction methods, and on the investigation of conservation history through recipe research.

Stols-Witlox obtained a BA and MA in Art History from Leiden University and subsequently studied the Conservation of Paintings and Painted Objects at the postgraduate programme of the Limburgs Conservation Institute (SRAL) in Maastricht. She further specialised in the conservation of panel paintings during a six-month internship at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. Stols subsequently worked as a painting restorer at the Mauritshuis, The Hague, and in various private studios in the Netherlands.