Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson was a British poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist and naturalist. In the 1930s, he was editor of the influential magazine New Verse, and went o
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
Geoffrey Grigson
…Revolution) of Nature's abundance, in an idyllic Kentish countryside. Controversially, these books also caught the attention of famous art forger Tom Keating, who used their illustrations as models for a series of Palmer fakes that he did in the 1960s and '70s. In 1976, along with Palmer experts from the…
Keating at Jane Kelly's family home in Kew, London, 1967.