Tom Keating
✓ Source-basedrisingBritish art restorer and forger (1917-1984)
Thomas Patrick Keating was an English artist, art restorer and art forger. Considered the most prolific and versatile art forger of the 20th century, he claimed to have faked more than 2,000 paintings by more than 160 different artists of unprecedented scope - ranging from the Renaissance to Modernism, Expressionism...
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HMS Lagan, 1943.
Frank Moss Bennett: Cavaliers playing cards, 1912
Cornelius Krieghoff: Trappers on the frontier.
River landscape in the Porczyński Gallery in Warsaw, signed as Alfred Sisley, is claimed to be Keating's forgery
The grave of Tom Keating in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Dedham, Essex
Titian: Tarquin and Lucretia, 1571
Degas: The Ballet Class, 1874Artists from United Kingdom 6
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Thomas Patrick Keating was an English artist, art restorer and art forger. Considered the most prolific and versatile art forger of the 20th century, he claimed to have faked more than 2,000 paintings by more than 160 different artists of unprecedented scope - ranging from the Renaissance to Modernism, Expressionism and Fauvism - with heavy emphasis on English landscape Romanticists and the French Impressionists. Total estimated profits from his forgeries amount in today's value to more than $10 million.
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