Forgery

William Chaloner was born in Warwickshire sometime around the late 1650s. His father was a weaver, but William showed little aptitude for the trade and was reportedly a wilful child, so his parents sent him away to Birmingham to be…

William Dodd was born in 1729 in the town of Bourne in Lincolnshire, which was in the 18th century a sleepy country town. His father was the local vicar and he seems to have done his best to prepare his son to follow him into the…

Fraud! Scandal! Forgery! Over the past several years, articles with such attention-grabbing headlines have regularly appeared in the American media, all concerning what is probably the biggest art forgery case of the twenty-first century.…