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
Keating at Jane Kelly's family home in Kew, London, 1967.
Frank Moss Bennett: Cavaliers playing cards, 1912
Cornelius Krieghoff: Trappers on the frontier.
Art forgery is the creation and sale of works of art which are intentionally falsely credited to other, usually more famous artists. Art forgery can be extremely lucrative, but modern dating and analy
Tom Keating
…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, he claimed to have faked more than 2,000 paintings by more than 160 different…
A City on a Rock, long attributed to Francisco Goya, is now thought to have been painted by 19th-century artist Eugenio Lucas Velázquez. Elements of the painting appear to have been copied from autographed works by Goya, and the painting is therefore classified as a pastiche. Compare to Goya's The Maypole.
Sign at the Taxila Museum, Pakistan, 1981
Forged self-portrait of Albrecht Dürer who lived from 1471 to 1528 by an unknown painter over a 1786 painting as confirmed by Dr. Kubach-Reutter of the Dürer House using X-rays and infrared radiation, with painting having been archived for almost two centuries in the Nuremberg City Museums
Strand von Ste. Adresse, 1863, a genuine original painting by Johan Barthold Jongkind.