Two new series of 'Fake or Fortune?'

August 23 2016

Picture: BBC

I was wrong about a new series of 'Fake or Fortune?' being commissioned - in fact there will be two new series. 

Here's a list of the artists we've investigated so far, in order, along with a score of whether the pictures were deemed to be genuine or not.

1. Monet - No (scandalously, in my opinion)
2. Winslow Homer - Yes
3. Van Meegeren - Yes 
4. Rembrandt - No (Isaac de Joudreville instead)
5. Degas - Yes 
6. Turner - Yes 
7. Van Dyck - Yes (the portrait of Henrietta Maria)
8. Vuillard - Yes
9. Constable - Yes & maybe (though subsequently upgraded to yes).
10. Chagall - No (a modern fake alas)
11. Gainsborough - Yes
12. Lowry - Yes
13. Renoir - No (scandalously)
14. 'A Mystery Old Master' - attributed to Francesco Montemezzano
15. Munnings and Churchill - Yes and No (wrongly, in my opinion)
16. Freud - Yes 
17. Delaroche - Yes
18. Rodin - No
19. 'Three Portraits' - De Kooning (Yes), Mercier (Yes), Menzel (No)

More information on all the episodes here.

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