About me
Gerrit Albertson is an Associate Paintings Conservator at The Art Institute of Chicago. Previously, he was an Associate Conservator of Paintings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a fellow in paintings conservation at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gerrit earned his Master of Science and Certificate in Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2017, and he completed a 12-month internship at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam as his final year of graduate study. He also completed graduate internships at the Yale University Art Gallery and Conservazione Beni Culturali in Rome, and in 2018 he participated in the Getty Foundation’s Conserving Canvas project at the National Gallery, London, where he helped carry out the re-lining of Anthony van Dyck’s Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (ca. 1638).
