To neighbors, they seemed a rather forlorn family: four adults crowded into a three-room public housing unit in Bolton, a drab industrial town in northern England. Forty-seven-year-old Shaun ...
The apology was delivered as Mr Greenhalgh visited the museum as part of a BBC TV series. Mr Greenhalgh famously created a forgery of the Amarna Princess which was bought by Bolton Museum for £440,000 ...
The Greenhalgh family—47- year-old Shaun and his octogenarian parents, Olive and George —lived quietly together in a housing project in the heart of Britain's postindustrial north. From the street, ...
In A Forger’s Tale—convicted forger Shaun Greenhalgh’s new memoir—Greenhalgh reveals that he drew Leonardo da Vinci’s La Bella Principessa, which has been valued upwards of $100 million. Greenhalgh ...
CHICAGO — For about a decade, “The Faun,” a ceramic sculpture of a half-man, half-goat figure, has been at the Art Institute of Chicago, presented as a work of the 19th century French master Paul ...
A multi-million dollar collection of forged art seized by police went on public display for the first time Saturday. The exhibition, at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), featured more than 100 ...
At the best of times, the market for fine art and antiquities is murky, but even at its worst, it's nothing compared to the seedy underworld of forgeries. The latter is the world which Shaun ...
A fraudster who conned the art world has told museum staff that he regrets duping experts with a fake statue. Bolton Museum paid £440,000 for the Amarna Princess figure, believing it had acquired a ...