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David Henty

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The Goldfinch

Original, after Carel Fabritius
Oil on board
Presented in an aged gold frame
Framed Size: 58 x 45 cm

Carel Fabritius was one of Rembrandt’s most talented pupils. The Goldfinch was one of his last paintings, before he died in a gunpowder explosion in 1654. Impressively hyper-realistic, the painting also inspired the bestselling novel The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.

David Henty is one of the world's most successful and notorious art forgers. After being exposed by The Telegraph in 2014 he has since become a bona fide artist in his own right, displaying an impressively versatile talent, and posing challenging questions about what it is about art we truly value.

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DAVID HENTY

David’s history as an artist started, appropriately enough, with a short stint in HM Prison for forgery in the mid-1990s.

It was while serving the sentence that David was inspired to start painting after being seduced by the stories of the artists he would study. Fascinated by their technical genius he became more and more interested in attaining a level of expertise. Wherever possible, he would even source the same materials, pigments, brushes, canvases and boards staying true to the period.

He became one of the most successful and notorious art forgers, and after being exposed by The Telegraph in 2014, he has since become a bona fide artist in his own right. Displaying an impressively versatile talent, he poses challenging questions about what it is about art we truly value.

Spanning four centuries—from 17th-century Baroque and the Dutch Golden Age through Post-Impressionism, the École de Paris, Neo-Expressionism, Modern Art and Graffiti—this remarkable collection journeys through the history of art, all recreated by the same hand: David Henty.

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