Sydney Beall is a Postgraduate Fellow in Paintings Conservation at the Yale University Art Gallery where she is focusing on the conservation treatments of two Italian 15th-century cassone painted by Paolo Uccello (1397–1475). She earned her M.S. from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2016, after receiving her B.F.A. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Virginia Tech in 2011. Sydney has previous conservation experience from various institutions, including the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia; and the Shelburne Museum, Vermont.