My wife’s uncle, Brian Singer, who has died aged 74, was a university lecturer and one of the world’s foremost experts in the science of art conservation.
His most prestigious work was undertaken for the estate of Francis Bacon, a seven-year-long technical assessment from 2006 of more than 100 works, which, said his former colleague Justin Perry, “made the job of forgers more difficult and the job of art historians and conservators easier”.
