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ADMIRAL LORD NELSON	Soft green pastoral landscapes, noble portraits of the great and famous. Fine sporting works depicting horses and hounds, of hunting and hunters. Historically, that is the essence of the art of Britain. Surely British art must be safe from the fakers? Not so I am afraid, it's been going on for years!
	The targets for the art fakers these days may well have changed and now includes the British Naïve school, works such as those created by Alfred Wallace and Joan Gilchrest and the pretty but primitive animal portraiture of prize bulls, old spot pigs and sheep. After all, they are relatively easy to fake. Unlike a John Constable, a Reynolds or Thomas Gainsborough you may think. But they all have one thing in common. They make a great deal of money and the fakers do too!.

Blinks original George Morland fake
English Naïve school Thomas Sydney Cooper	A Reynolds? NO! One such example is told through an interesting investigation we conducted into an alleged Thomas Gainsborough landscape where the faker made some basic errors of judgement. He may have been eventually caught out by forensics, comparative study and simple expertise. Most are. In this though, he just made a silly mistake.
Thomas Gainsborough (1727- 88) Or not ? CASE STUDY: Thomas Gainsborough was principally a great & famous English painter of portraits, landscapes and 'fancy' pictures. Blue Boy for instance which is known the word over. Clearly he was one of the most individual geniuses in British art history, both successful and valuable in real terms. Here on the right, is what was truly believed by its owner to be a Gainsborough landscape painting in oil on canvas of figures on a mountain track by a stream. A typically 'Gainsborough-esque' landscape you might say and one backed up with long term provenance. The 'Gainsborough' painting had been cleaned but the conservator was reticent to clean the signature area for fear of damaging it. So the discoloured old varnish can still be seen covering it. Obviously it's been there for a very long time.
Below: A comparable but authentic Gainsborough landscape	Take a much closer look at the signature (above) and you will very clearly see pencil lines underneath the painted letters. T - G and a. "Now who signs a painting first in pencil and then goes over it with paint?" It's patently obvious: Someone trying to make a painting bearing another signature something much more special, important and valuable by adding the name Gainsborough to it. And all this over 100 years ago! Note: The painting probably started life as an unsigned landscape by Gainsborough emulator Thomas Barker of Bath, was picked up cheaply at auction at the turn of the 19th Century and magic'd its way into league division 1 with the inclusion of Gainsborough's false & copied signature.
Commonly faked British artists and faked art includes:
Laurence Stephen Lowry	L S Lowry Fake
Sir Alfred Munnings British sporting artist
Any pastoral landscape that you can add a better name to!
Like the British artist John Constable	John Constable Fake Landscape John Constable Fake signature
	Keating fake Constable Haywain
John Crome	John Crome fake by Tom Keating
George Morland Extensively faked	George Morland authentic painting
John Fernley, both Senior and Junior OTHER WELL FAKED BRITISH ARTISTS:	John Fernley Junior - Fake painting Authentic oil painting - John Fernley Junior
John Frederick Herring
Portrait Miniatures
Samuel Palmer	Samuel Palmer original painting
Thomas Bush Hardy
David Roberts
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Thomas Sidney Cooper
English Naïve school animal paintings
Alfred Wallace and Joan Gilchrist	Wallace original Gilchrest original
Even Plymouth's Robert Lenkiewicz is now being faked! Along with Tom Keatings fakes,,,which are also being faked!	Lenkiewicz fake
Before you begin a Full Scale Art Authentication Project: Art authentication is not about guesswork and certainly not about wishful opinion. It is a world where there is little room for conjecture and is all about reality. Most normal human beings are naturally guided here by a dream. A dream that what they have may just be something special after all. They are beguiled by that magical possibility. A possibility that what they believe to be true, what they have been told is true or what they want to believe is true, is actually true! But do remember, with authentication, that dream has to be absolutely proven. Just like a case placed before a court of law. In court, any case must be proven and adjudged convincingly, without a shadow of doubt and proven in many different ways; academically, forensically and in reality. All of this has to be achievable before the the work can be pronounced absolutely authentic. Before you get into the procedures minefield which can evolve with art authentication, a field which may be both financially and emotionally taxing, it is more than wise to be realistic about the issue and have an independent 'preliminary assessment' conducted first. A pre authentication assessment, is a professional assessment which is based upon reality. It balances the viability of your work of art and its background and assesses the possibility based on our past experiences, that the case may be realistically followed through and eventually possibly be proven. The advice you get will be invaluable and based upon the simple question; Is there any reality in the possibility that the work of art could be right, can we diminish the risks and do we have any serious chance achieving our objective? If a project is literally not achievable and not provable, surely it would be sensible to know that from the start! Such an assessment then allows the client to make a wiser, considered decision and apply a greater degree of sensibility in taking the leap into a staged, full blown authentication investigation. It makes a great deal of sense. CONTACT US for that advice.
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