Fake or Fortune: Season 4, Episode 2 – Renoir
Nicky Philipps, a portrait artist renowned for her pictures of the royal family, has asked the Fake or Fortune team to investigate a painting which hangs on the walls of Picton Castle, once the Philipps family seat. The work was bought in the 1930s by Nicky’s great-grandfather, Sir Laurence Philipps, who believed it to be […]
Fake or Fortune: Season 4, Episode 2 – Renoir
Nicky Philipps, a portrait artist renowned for her pictures of the royal family, has asked the Fake or Fortune team to investigate a painting which hangs on the walls of Picton Castle, once the Philipps family seat.
The work was bought in the 1930s by Nicky’s great-grandfather, Sir Laurence Philipps, who believed it to be by celebrated impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir.
But the painting has been dogged by doubt for half a century, and two art world authorities can’t agree whether it’s genuine or fake.
