When he wasn't busy faking the art of old masters and selling them to unsuspecting customers, Eric Hebborn liked to talk about a book he intended to write on the “serious grammar” of drawing. He ...

After confounding the experts with his fake Old Master drawings and paintings, the late English art forger Eric Hebborn is taking another stab at so-called connoisseurs through an unpublished drawing ...

Sometimes it’s not about getting the real deal. A collection of 234 pieces by the late English art forger Eric Hebborn sold at auction on Wednesday for over £50,000 (about $79,000), more than five ...

Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Not long after Eric Hebborn was murdered, an off-the-record conversation with the famed ...

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I bought a Rembrandt the other day. Just a very small one, since I’m not made of money. A playing-card sized study of an old man’s head in ink and wash, it is almost as Rembrandtian as Rembrandt gets: ...

Some might consider Eric Hebborn one of the 20th century's greatest visual artists, but not for his own work. Always a troublemaker, Hebborn was a master forger who created nearly identical copies of ...

What can one expect from a charming British working class bloke whose very essence, like that of Eliza Doolittle’s father, is major mischief. Especially considering his Dickensian childhood as ...

"If I'm allowed to have a favorite forger, which I know sounds a little bit funny, it would be Eric Hebborn, who's really the prince of art forgers," Noah Charney says. "He's the only one of over ...