Fake Or Fortune?

Fake Or Fortune?
TV Show · History · Reality

Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould investigate the remarkable stories behind famous artworks to find out if they are the works they claim to be or are masterful forgeries.

2011 · 57m
Starring Fiona Bruce, Philip Mould
Director Nicky Illis

Season 4

  • Lowry
    EPISODE 1
    Lowry
    Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould help Stephen Ames investigate the provenance of three paintings that he believes are works by LS Lowry.
    58m
  • Renoir
    EPISODE 2
    Renoir
    Fiona and Philip help Nicky Philipps identify a painting that was bought in the 1930s by his great-great-grandfather. Will there be enough evidence to prove that the paining is a genuine work by Pierre Auguste Renoir?
    58m
  • Mystery Old Master
    EPISODE 3
    Mystery Old Master
    Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould head to a beautiful church in the heart of the Lancastrian countryside that has, for over 200-years, been home to a possible 16th-century Italian Old Master.
    57m
  • Munnings and Churchill
    EPISODE 4
    Munnings and Churchill
    Fiona and the team investigate two paintings by two giants of the 20th century: Sir Alfred Munnings, the pre-eminent British artist of his day, and Sir Winston Churchill, the great statesman whose private passion was painting.
    58m
  • Freud
    EPISODE 1
    Freud
    Can art detectives Philip Mould and Fiona Bruce prove that a painting of a man in a black cravat is one of the first pictures ever painted by celebrated and controversial British artist Lucian Freud, even though Freud himself denied painting it?
    58m
  • Delaroche
    EPISODE 2
    Delaroche
    The team have been called in to investigate a mysterious painting in Castle of Park, a grand house in Abderdeenshire now run as a B&B by Becky Wilson. The painting once belonged to Becky's late husband Neil, an art dealer.
    58m

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Cast & Crew

  • Fiona Bruce
    Host
  • Philip Mould
    Host
  • N‌I
    Nicky Illis
    Director
  • N‌I
    Nicky Illis
    Producer
  • S‌B
    Sebastian Barfield
    Producer

About

Fake Or Fortune?

History

Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould investigate the remarkable stories behind famous artworks to find out if they are the works they claim to be or are masterful forgeries.

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Studio
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Released
2011
Rated
PG
Region of Origin
United Kingdom
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