Patrick Baty is a prominent expert in architectural paint and color consultancy with over 30 years of experience, focusing on historical decoration and restoration projects. He has contributed significantly to scholarly works on color and decoration, founded various professional groups, and has been involved in high-profile projects in the UK and USA, earning a royal warrant in 2007. Baty offers practical guidance on paint and color issues, particularly for listed buildings, while also providing research, color matching, and consultancy services.

1. Patrick Baty Architectural Paint and Colour

2. Some of the Work Undertaken Colour matching Consultancy on historical decoration email: [email_address]

3. email: [email_address] Patrick Baty Originally an officer in the British Army. He has always had an interest in historic buildings. Patrick has been advising on the use of colour in decoration for the last thirty years.

4. Patrick Baty 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: email: [email_address] “ perhaps the first Englishman to use pure colour in the 20th Century”

5. email: [email_address] Patrick’s great grandmother, Stanisława de Karłowska, also a successful artist, combined a modernist style with colours inspired by her native Poland.

6. email: [email_address] Patrick’s father, Robert Baty, started Papers and Paints in London in 1960. For the next thirty years he developed a reputation for the matching of paint colours and for expert advice on decoration.

7. Patrick joined Papers and Paints in 1980 and has since been responsible for consolidating the company’s reputation as all-round specialists in decorative paint and colour. In 2007 Papers and Paints were granted a Royal Warrant of Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen. email: [email_address]

8. Since completing a research degree that focussed on the 18 th century housepainter’s methods and materials Patrick has advised on a considerable variety of restoration projects in the UK and USA email: [email_address]

9. Patrick has carried out extensive research into the use of pigments in architectural and decorative painting email: [email_address]

10. Patrick Baty has written, taught and lectured on the use of paint and colour in architecture for many years. He has also supervised and lectured to postgraduate students from several countries and to undergraduates and students on design courses in the UK. email: [email_address]

11. Patrick Baty has run a number of paint workshops in the UK and USA during the last fifteen years email: [email_address]

12. email: [email_address] Patrick has contributed to, edited or revised several books on colour and decoration, including: Paint Magic Colour in Decoration Paint The Complete Paint Book Regency Style Adam Style Palladian Style The Georgian Group Guide to the Georgian House House Decoration John Fowler: The Invention of the Country-House Style Pigment Compendium Materials & Skills for Historic Building Conservation

13. email: [email_address] Some published works (1): "Palette of Historic Paints." Country Life , 20 Feb. 1992: 56-57. "Comment." [On the new restrictions on the use of lead paint] Country Life , 30 Apr. 1992: 44. "Palette of the Past." Country Life , 3 Sep. 1992: 44-47. "External Paintwork." The Building Conservation Directory 1993 . 1993: 89. "A Potted History." Perspectives on Architecture . April 1994: 70-71. "My True Colours." The Architects' Journal . 15 June 1994: 50. "The Role of Paint Analysis in the Historic Interior." The Journal of Architectural Conservation . March 1995: 27- 37.

14. email: [email_address] Some published works (2): "To Scrape or Not to Scrape ?" Traditional Paint News , Vol. 1 No 2 October 1996: 9-15. "Some Myths Laid to Rest." Traditional Paint News , Vol. 1 No 2 October 1996: 39-46. "Getting the Measure of Colour." Historic House , Vol. 24 No 4 November 2000: 40-42. "Some Tips on Commissioning Paint Analysis." In Layers of Understanding: Setting Standards for Architectural Paint Research Proceedings of a seminar held on 28th April 2000. Donhead Publishing, Dorset. 2002. House Decoration, by Paul Hasluck. An introduction to the facsimile edition. Donhead Publishing, Dorset. 2001.

15. email: [email_address] Some published works (3): "Just How Authentic are Authentic Colour Schemes?" The Professional Painter & Decorator , August/September 2001: 26-28. "Inspired by the Past?" In John Fowler: The Invention of the Country-House Style . Donhead Publishing, Dorset. 2005. This paper follows the English Heritage/Traditional Paint Forum conference Inspired by the Past that took place in London on 4th July 2001. "The Colours of Chelsea." The Chelsea Society Report 2003. "The Colours of Calke." The World of Interiors December 2007: 139-143.

16. email: [email_address] Some published works (4): "Exterior Colour on the Smaller Town House" in Materials & Skills for Historic Building Conservation . Blackwell Publishing, Oxford. 2008. "The Colourful Past of the Royal Festival Hall," Traditional Paint News , Vol 2 No 3 February 2008: 95-111. "Straws from Cumberland Market" in the catalogue for an exhibition of works of art at Southampton City Art Gallery entitled "A Countryman in Town: Robert Bevan and the Cumberland Market Group”. 26th September to 14th December 2008.

17. Patrick Baty has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Georgian Group for many years. He was also a founding member of both The Architectural Paint Group and The Traditional Paint Forum. Patrick is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. email: [email_address]

18. email: [email_address] By definition most of his projects are carried out on listed buildings, however Patrick is very happy to consider projects on a more domestic scale. You may simply want clear-headed advice on the use of paint or colour in your own house. Perhaps you have recently bought it and are unsure where to begin. Patrick is not an interior designer. He offers non-frilly practical guidance on paint and colour issues - something that he has done on a daily basis for thirty years.

19. email: [email_address] Listed Buildings Planning consent must sometimes be obtained if painting a listed building. This depends on whether it affects the character of the building . The type of paint to be used is often a particular consideration in grade I or II* buildings.

20. email: [email_address] Should the sashes be a light or dark colour?

21. Colour Matching Existing paint Wallpapers and fabrics Other objects email: [email_address] This can be done on your premises if you are unable to bring or send in the sample

22. Paint Analysis To establish how a room once looked To date a structure To guide the redecoration of an early building email: [email_address]

23. Colour Surveys Colour measurements taken Existing colours identified Maintenance schedule prepared Great savings in time and expense email: [email_address]

24. Corporate Colour Work Corporate Colours Shop Fronts & Fascias Assistance with Stationery and Packaging email: [email_address]

25. Estate Colours Identifying Earlier Colour Advice on New Colour Experience throughout the UK email: [email_address]

26. Colour Consultancy 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

27. Colour Ranges Developed Heritage range designed for Dulux New range for English Heritage Ranges for the French & German markets Papers and Paints ranges email: [email_address]

28. email: [email_address] London Albany Royal Albert Hall All Saints: Margaret Street Apsley House Archway House, Clapham Common A Selection of Recent Projects

29. Apsley House Patrick Baty taking colour measurements

30. Apsley House Gate piers painted to match Portland stone. I also carried out a colour survey of the interior.

31. email: [email_address] London (continued) 56 & 58 Artillery Lane, Spitalfields Athenaeum Club Bank of England The Barbican Estate BBC Broadcasting House 13 Bedford Row, WC1 Boodle's British Museum The Brompton Oratory Brooks' Club Buckingham Palace Carlton Club Cavalry and Guards Club The Cenotaph

32. Brooks’s, St James’s A survey was made of the existing paint colours and a maintenance schedule prepared

33. email: [email_address] London (continued) Chelsea Arts Club Christ Church, Spitalfields Crosby Hall Crown Estate Headquarters Dover House, Whitehall (Scotland Office) Downing Street Ealing Abbey Eltham Lodge Eltham Palace The Foreign Office The Foundling Museum The Benjamin Franklin House The Museum of Fulham Palace The Geffrye Museum St George's, Bloomsbury

34. Paint Analysis & Colour Matching I carried out the analysis of the Rotunda and matched paint colours in the Scottish Secretary’s Office Dover House The Scotland Office

35. email: [email_address] London (continued) St George-in-the-East, Stepney The Georgian Group Headquarters Golden Lane Housing Estate 1 Greek Street, Soho Princess Amelia's Temple: Gunnersbury Park Gwydyr House, Whitehall (Wales Office) Hammersmith Bridge Handel House Museum Home House St. James's Palace St John the Baptist, Hoxton St. John's, Hyde Park St. John's, Smith Square Dr Johnson's House Kensington Palace Kenwood

36. Paint Analysis Handel House London Home to the composer George Frideric Handel from 1723 to 1759

37. email: [email_address] London (continued) Kew Palace Lancaster House Lichfield House (15 St James's Square) London Library Mansfield Street - various Marlborough House (Commonwealth Secretariat) Metropolitan Wharf National Gallery Palace Theatre Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea - Town Hall Royal Festival Hall Royal Hospital, Chelsea Royal Society of Musicians Royal Naval College, Greenwich (Old) Bank of New York

38. Consultancy I was employed to advise on the restoration of the painted schemes that existed when occupied by King George III Kew Palace

39. email: [email_address] London (continued) The Old Royal Observatory, Greenwich St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park St. Paul's Cathedral St Saviour's, Hampstead The Sir John Soane's Museum Somerset House Spencer House Tower of London Travellers' Club Trinity College of Music The Victoria and Albert Museum: (Silver Galleries; Hereford Screen; British Galleries & Paul Pindar House) Wallace Collection Westminster School St Yeghiche's Armenian Church

40. Paint Analysis & Colour Matching Travellers’ Club Pall Mall Analysis and colour matching carried out over the last 15 years

41. email: [email_address] ENGLAND Avon Ashton Court, Bristol City of Bath exteriors Commercial Rooms, Bristol Norland House, Clifton A Selection of Projects Further Afield

42. Basildon Park , Berkshire An analysis of the external surfaces

43. email: [email_address] Berkshire Basildon Park Elstree School Royal Lodge Windsor Castle Royal Mausoleum Buckinghamshire Stoke Park Cambridgeshire Odsey House

44. Analysis & Consultancy I have carried out various projects in the Castle Windsor Castle Berkshire

45. email: [email_address] Cornwall Boconnoc House Penzance Colour Project Dorset Kingston Lacy Essex Boxted House Valence House, Dagenham Valentines Mansion, Ilford

46. email: [email_address] Gloucestershire Gloucester: St Michael Square Project Hidcote Manor Garden Hampshire Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport Stratfield Saye Winchester College Herefordshire The Mynde

47. Colour Survey Syon Park Great Hall The painted scheme of John Fowler was measured before it was recently overpainted

48. email: [email_address] Hertfordshire The Grove Monkenholt, Hadley Green Isle of Wight Farringford House Lincolnshire Belton House Middlesex Bentley Priory Syon House

49. email: [email_address] Northumberland Brizlee Tower, Alnwick Nottinghamshire Worksop Manor Oxfordshire RAF Bicester Sarsden House St Peter's College, Oxford Suffolk Landguard Fort, Felixstowe

50. Hampton Court Palace, Privy Garden Identification of 1702 paint colours

51. email: [email_address] Surrey Addington Palace Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede Army Staff College, Camberley Clandon Park David Garrick Temple, Hampton Ham House Hampton Court Palace (Privy Garden, King’s Beasts and other projects St Peter's Church, Petersham Polesden Lacey

52. The King’s Beasts Hampton Court Palace I identified the colours that would have been applied to King Henry VIII’s heraldic beasts in the 1530s

53. email: [email_address] Sussex Brunswick Square, Hove Coombe Place, Offham Fife House, Brighton Goodwood House, Chichester Uppark, near Petersfield Weald and Downland Museum West Midlands Barber Institute, Birmingham

54. email: [email_address] Wiltshire Banqueting House: Wardour Old Castle Stourhead Wilbury House Wilton House Yorkshire Judge's Lodgings, York Raby Castle, near Darlington Temple Newsam House, near Leeds

55. Paint Analysis Brodie Castle Moray I was asked to identify the first scheme in the 1820s drawing room

56. email: [email_address] SCOTLAND Broughton House, Kirkcudbright 26-31 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh Culzean Castle, Ayrshire Donaldson's College, Edinburgh Dumfries House, Ayrshire Falkland Palace, Fife The Georgian House, Edinburgh Greenbank, Glasgow The Hill House, Helensburgh Hill of Tarvit, Fife Holmwood House, Glasgow The House of the Binns, Linlithgow Hynish, Isle of Tiree, Argyll Mayshiel Shooting Lodge, East Lothian Newhailes, East Lothian

57. email: [email_address] SCOTLAND (continued) Pollok House, Glasgow Robert Smail's Printing Works, Innerleithen Threave House, Castle Douglas WALES Gower Penrice Castle ISLE OF MAN Castletown Old House of Keys

58. Paint Analysis External face of a stable door – dark blue now although grained originally Hill of Tarvit Fife

59. email: [email_address] IRELAND Co. Kilkenny Castletown Cox Co. Laois Abbey Leix Ballyfin Co. Meath Headfort House Dublin 50 North Great George's Street

60. 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.

61. email: [email_address] USA New York Metropolitan Museum of Art North Carolina Richard Bennehan House, Stagville Tryon Palace, New Bern South Carolina Nathaniel Russell House, Charleston 14 Legare Street, Charleston Virginia Lee Hall Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

62. Tryon Palace North Carolina USA A visit was made to advise on the appropriate decoration for this 1950s recreation of the original State Capitol

63. A private house in Charleston South Carolina USA Patrick Baty was asked to assist an American paint analyst and to prepare a paint specification

64. Paint Analysis (1) Small samples of paint are removed from representative elements of the room being examined

65. Paint Analysis (2) The samples are set in a clear resin and numbered

66. Paint Analysis (3) When the resin has set the block is cut through and polished

67. Paint Analysis (4) The samples are then examined under various microscopes

68. Paint Analysis (5) A series of green schemes found on a garden door on a Scottish estate

69. Paint Analysis (6) 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

70. Paint Analysis (7) Pigment identification Blue Verditer pigment in dispersion viewed under a polarising microscope Royal Pavilion Brighton

71. Paint Analysis Artillery Lane Spitalfields The finest 18 th century shopfront in London

72. Artillery Lane, Spitalfields Scanning Electron Microscope print-out Cross section of paint

73. Paint Analysis I identified the 1740s decorative scheme in the Picture Gallery and proved that the original flock paper had been green Temple Newsam near Leeds

74. Paint Analysis Benjamin Franklin House I identified the decorative schemes that existed when the house was occupied by Benjamin Franklin

75. Newhailes , East Lothian

76. Paint Analysis Newhailes East Lothian I established that the Dining Room had last been painted in 1873 and that it was not the original scheme of 1739 that had survived

77. Newhailes, East Lothian Until my investigation it was thought that this house had been untouched by time

78. Culzean Castle, Ayrshire Paint Analysis

79. The weathered blue was a green when first applied The exposed “blue” can be seen under the microscope Culzean Castle, Ayrshire

80. Paint Analysis I was employed to investigate the decorative schemes applied to the inside and outside of six adjacent buildings in the New Town. This is possibly the largest paint analysis project ever undertaken 26-31 Charlotte Square Edinburgh

81. Paint Analysis Syon House Great Conservatory The original scheme of 1827 was revealed

82. Paint Analysis I carried out an analysis of the paint on the external stucco and the gilded statue of Athena Athenaeum Club London

83. “ Bronzed” Atlas in the lantern Cross section of paint from “bronzed” element. It had been painted twice First “bronzed” scheme Lancaster House

84. Paint Analysis Holmwood House Glasgow Considered the finest domestic design by the architect Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson

85. Paint Analysis Hammersmith Bridge

86. Paint Analysis BBC & Radio Theatre

87. Paint Analysis I was asked to identify the 1951 decorative scheme for the recent major refurbishment of this first postwar “modern” building Royal Festival Hall

88. Paint Analysis Golden Lane Estate London I was asked to identify the 1962 colour schemes for this newly-listed housing estate

89. 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

90. Several hundred thousand paint colours have been measured with the spectrophotometer. These are stored on a computer and close matches can be found for most new colours.

91. Colour Measurement 10 Downing Street Initially I was asked to match the colour of a sentry box. Other colour work has also been carried out on the interior

92. Colour Survey Boodles’ St James’s Paints matched to existing and maintenance schedule prepared

93. Colour Matching Kensington Palace Orangery A wooden plinth had been built to prevent the base of the statue being damaged. I was asked to produce a textured paint in a colour to match the Portland stone base

94. Colour Measurement Royal Naval College Greenwich Painted Hall Survey of existing colours to produce a scheme for the dado

95. Colour Measurement Wilton House Little Smoking Room A fragment of the wall surface on a paint matched to the overall colour of the stippled finish

96. Colour Survey Wilton House Wyatt Cloisters Each web of the vaulted ceiling had been painted in a different colour when John Fowler supervised the decoration in the 1960s. In 2008 I carried out a survey in order to be able to reproduce the colours.

97. St James’s Palace Surfaces matched in various parts of the building

98. Paint Analysis & Teaching Analysis of a small plantation house. Venue of several paint workshops run by Patrick Baty Bennehan House Stagville North Carolina USA

99. Paint Workshops North Carolina USA Following my analysis the students made the paint and then applied it

100. Paint Workshops Eastfield Village New York USA Five day courses run by Matt Mosca and Patrick Baty

101. Paint Analysis & Colour Measurement Foreign Office The original colour of the external ironwork was established. Paint has also been matched in various locations within the building.

102. The Griffin and Millstone is the Baty heraldic badge. The Griffin was the crest of my grandmother's family but, following a petition to the College of Arms, she has been given a millstone to indicate our long involvement with paint and colour. The millstone also refers to the burden carried by my branch of the family who were “relieved” of a considerable inheritance.

103. For more information on what I do: www.patrickbaty.com email: [email_address]