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Thomas Patrick Keating (1 March 1917 – 12 February 1984) was an English artist, art restorer and art forger.Considered the most prolific and versatile art forger of the 20th century, [1] he claimed to have faked more than 2,000 paintings by more than 160 different artists of unprecedented scope—ranging from the Renaissance (Holbein, Titian, Tintoretto) to Modernism, Expressionism and ...
Henricus Antonius "Han" van Meegeren (Dutch pronunciation: [ɦɛnˈrikʏs ɑnˈtoːnijəs ˈɦɑɱ vɑ ˈmeːɣərə(n)]; 10 October 1889 – 30 December 1947) was a Dutch painter and portraitist, considered one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. [1]
John Myatt, (born 1945), is a British artist convicted of art forgery who, with John Drewe, perpetrated what has been described as "the biggest art fraud of the 20th century". [1] After his conviction, Myatt was able to continue profiting from his forgery career through his creation of "genuine fakes". [2]
Tony Tetro (born 1950), prolific U.S. forger; The Spanish Forger (early 20th Century), French forger of medieval miniatures; William J. Toye (1931–2018), forged and sold the work of Clementine Hunter; Eduardo de Valfierno (c. 1850 –c. 1931), art dealer who worked with forger Yves Chaudron; Otto Wacker (1898–1970), German purveyor of fake ...
In 2022 Henty contributed inspiration and information for the ‘Daniel Hegarty’ art forger character at the centre of Peter James’ 18th ‘Roy Grace’ novel Picture You Dead. [1] Henty and James met in 2016 when James was researching the non-fiction work Death Comes Knocking he co-authored with former commander of Brighton and Hove police ...
The extraordinary real-life story of a friendship between a reformed ex-art forger and the police officer who arrested him has emerged in Jeffrey Archer's latest crime novel An Eye For An Eye, out ...
Elmyr de Hory (born Elemér Albert Hoffmann; April 14, 1906 [citation needed] – December 11, 1976) was a famed Hungarian-born painter and art forger.It is claimed he was responsible for producing over a thousand forgeries that were sold to reputable art galleries all over the world.
His father was Han van Meegeren, who later became known as an art forger. [2] His mother was a descendant of an Indonesian royal family. [3] In 1915, his sister Inez was born. [4] As a child, van Meegeren helped in his father's art studio. His father took him to art dealers and museums and taught him how to assess paintings. He began making his ...