As you know, GA rules are against this sort of thing, but as you are
regular, and nobody is looking at the moment, here are a few methods
the experts use.
Eric Hebborn
"Indeed, the tools essential to a forger of the Hebborn school include
not only the predictable brushes and paints (helpfully organized by
the era in which they were used) but also eggs (tempera base), milk
(fixative), bread (eraser), potato (grease stain removal) and olive
oil (stain creating).
Hebborn's best trick was to obtain authentic period paper on which to
draw his fakes. Good paper, Hebborn says with authority, can fool
experts into forgiving a multitude of flaws. He once forged a Piranesi
drawing on genuine 18th century paper with the watermark of paper used
by Piranesi. A printseller who had acquired a bound collection of
Piranesi etchings removed the prints and sold him the endpapers and
extra sheets. Alternatively, Hebborn offers recipes on how to prepare
"ancient" paper--by soaking it in infusions of tea and coffee, or by
smoking it over a fire--and add watermarks.
One particularly ingenious trick involves painting a fake over a fake.
Once the top fake is revealed by X-ray, he suggests, a buyer is more
likely to believe that the bottom fake is an exciting, real discovery.
"A little connoisseurship," he remarks, "is a dangerous thing." "
Source - Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1997/int/970310/aart.the_artful.html
John Myatt ? artist & John Drewe ? provenance forger
"Drewe's real genius lay in his ability to authenticate Myatt's works
through bogus provenances -- the history of a work of art, from its
creation through its purchasings and exhibitions to its current
ownership, crucial elements in the sale of any picture [...] Drewe had
systematically infiltrated some of the most security-conscious art
archives in the world, altering the provenances of genuine paintings
to establish a lineage making way for Myatt's mostly unexceptional
forgeries, and then seeding the collections with false records that
provided the pictures with instant heritage."
Source - New York Times report
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19990718mag-art-forger.html
You should also carry out in-depth study of the following books:
Eric Hebborn's The Art Forger's Handbook (New York: Overlook Press 1997)
Drawn to Trouble: Confessions of a Master Forger (New York: Random House 1993)
Art of the Forger (New York: Dodd Mead 1985) by Christopher Wright.
Tom Keating & Geraldine Norman The Fake's Progress (London: Hutchinson 1977).
Finally, I recommend you forge this painting and substitute the
Pug-dog with a certain Yorkshire Terrier ? nobody will notice.
http://www.abcgallery.com/H/hogarth/hogarth33.html
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