Aviva Burnstock

Aviva Ruth Burnstock (born 1959)[1] is head of the Department of Art Conservation & Technology at the Courtauld Institute, London.

Professor Burnstock is a graduate of the University of Sussex (BSc.

Neurobiology 1981) and took in 1991 a PhD at the Courtauld Institute[2] In 2011 Burnstock was member of a team that confirmed in the BBC One television series Fake or Fortune?

that the painting The Procuress in the Courtauld's collection – a version of a 1622 work by Dirck van Baburen now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – is an Oil paint-Bakelite forgery by Han van Meegeren made in the 1930s or 1940s.

[5] She is the daughter of the neurobiologist Geoffrey Burnstock[6] and married since 1989 to Hugh Sebag-Montefiore.