Fake fairies cost the artist-lover of freedom
English was sentenced to two years in prison self-taught artist who successfully faked pictures of John Anstera Fitzgerald, who wrote in the XIX century scenes from the life of fairies and elves. Robert had been convicted Tveytisu managed to sell two of his work, imitating techniques and subjects Fitzgerald, 120 thousand pounds sterling. The owner of one of the fakes, the famous London art dealer Rupert Maas is ready to continue to exhibit a copy of one of the works Tveytisa, despite the fact that the picture is fake, the newspaper The Guardian.
54-year-old Robert Tveytis told the court that Fitzgerald forged from despair: he lost his job because of deteriorating vision and was unable to pay its debts, in particular, for teaching her son at a prestigious private school. However Tveytisom condemned his brother and friend who participated in the search for buyers for paintings, but his sentence is limited to fines and probation.
Paintings by John Fitzgerald Anstera stored in several major British museums, including the gallery Tate.
http://lenta.ru/news/2006/09/19/fakes/
Works of John Anstera Fitzgerald (born 1832 - died 1906):