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Eli Wilner & Company announces 2021 fully-funded frame restoration grant opportunity for museums
A 19th Century portrait frame in the collection of the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT, before and after restoration by Eli Wilner & Company.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Eli Wilner & Company extends another fully-funded frame restoration grant opportunity to museums and other non-profit cultural institutions. Frame restoration projects are often among the last initiatives considered for inclusion in often limited conservation budgets, especially during the past year with the impact of pandemic related revenue losses.
In 2020, Wilner awarded two fully-funded grants to museums for important historical framing projects. The first grant was also open specifically to frame restoration projects, and was awarded to the Museums at Washington and Lee University, in Lexington Virginia, for the frame on a 1779 portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette, by Charles Willson Peale, 49 x 40 inches, originally co