Brian Baade worked as a practicing painter and illustrator after graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before devoting his career to painting conservation. He attended the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, graduating in 2006. Brian majored in painting conservation with a focus on the identification and analysis of historic painting materials and techniques. His has worked at the Chateau Parentignat in France, Amsterdam, where he assisted Dr. Leslie Carlyle with the analysis and reconstruction of media used by Van Gogh, and at the Yale University Art Gallery. Brian then accepted a WUDPAC Limited Term Researcher position to teach the materials and techniques of painting and introduction to painting conservation courses to undergraduate and graduate conservation students. In 2009, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation awarded the University of Delaware a grant for Brian to create historically accurate reconstructions of three Kress paintings in the National Gallery of Art and instruct a class of graduate and undergraduate students on the subject. The following year, Brian headed a small team to create the first technical study of the paintings and techniques of Henry Ossawa Tanner for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He wrote the chapter on using dry pigments for the Paintings Specialty Group Inpainting catalog. In 2010, the Kress again awarded the University a grant for Brian to create two additional reconstructions of Kress paintings and teach a class of conservation, art history, and studio arts undergraduates on the materials and techniques and technical art history associated with the project. Brian has accepted another research position at the University of Delaware where he teaches courses in the materials and techniques of Western art, inpainting, and technical art history. Brian spends his spare time treating paintings as a private painting conservator in Delaware.