Tom Keating

Tom Keating (* March 1, 1917 in London, † 12 February 1984 in Colchester ) was a restorer and became known as an art forger.

Keating came from a humble background and worked as a painter and painter but also as an early restorer. Attempts to succeed with his own works on the art market failed. Keating then became the enemy of the gallery system and motivated his more than 2000 fakes from over 100 artists and ideologically. He placed " time bombs " in his works of art, they prepared something like this that they would be destroyed during cleansing, also brought anachronisms into his motifs. Keating's technique was similar to that of the Venetians, his idol was Rembrandt.

Keating forged not only in oil but also watercolors, from François Boucher, Edgar Degas, Jean- Honoré Fragonard, Thomas Gainsborough, Amedeo Modigliani, Rembrandt, Pierre- Auguste Renoir and Kees van Dongen.

1970 flew Keatings counterfeiters activity on, in 1977, he was arrested and charged, but remained because of his poor health at large and was in 1982-84 known as TV presenter. Keating presented in a series before painters like Cezanne, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Manet, Degas, Constable, Rembrandt, Turner and Titian, and painted at the same time each image in the style of portraying the Master. In his year of death works were successfully auctioned at Christie's of 204 Keatings.