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The Best Episodes of Fake or Fortune?

Journalist Fiona Bruce teams up with art expert Philip Mould to investigate the provenance or attribution of notable artworks.
  1. 9.3/10(12 votes)

    #1 - Helen McNicoll

    S12:E2

    Artist and dealer David Taylor believes his saleroom punt is a work by one of Canada’s most celebrated impressionists, Helen McNicoll. Can the team help prove it's the real thing?

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  2. 8.8/10(40 votes)

    #2 - Monet

    S1:E1

    Fiona and Philip take a look at a painting they think is an unrecognised work by Monet. They then try to persuade different luminaries from the art world to believe them.

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    Director:Nicky Illis
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  3. 8.7/10(30 votes)

    #3 - Van Dyck: What Lies Beneath

    S2:E3

    The tables end up being turned on Philip this week when one of his own pictures are put under the microscope.

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  4. 8.5/10(36 votes)

    #4 - Homer

    S1:E2

    Fiona and Philip take a look at a painting which could be a piece of work by 19th-century American artist Winslow Homer and was discovered at a rubbish tip.

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  5. 8.5/10(25 votes)

    #5 - Chagall

    S3:E3

    Fiona and Philip attempt to help Martin Lang try and prove the painting he bought in 1992 is by modern master Marc Chagall.

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  6. 8.4/10(34 votes)

    #6 - Vuillard

    S3:E1

    Fiona and Philip attempt to help a man who believes he owns a painting by French post-impressionist Edouard Vuillard.

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    Director:Nicky Illis
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  8. 8.4/10(31 votes)

    #7 - Delaroche

    S5:E2

    The team try to prove the authenticity of a suspected lost masterpiece by Paul Delaroche.

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  9. 8.4/10(29 votes)

    #8 - Tom Roberts

    S6:E2

    Is a purchase from an online auction site a lost work by Australian artist Tom Roberts?

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  10. 8.3/10(29 votes)

    #9 - Constable

    S6:E1

    The team try to find out whether a painting is a lost masterpiece by John Constable.

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  11. 8.3/10(23 votes)

    #10 - A King's Last Supper

    S9:E4

    Anglesey farmer Huw Lewis bought a small painting depicting the Last Supper for 50 pounds on the internet. Can the team prove it's an 18th century work by the artist Benjamin West?

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    Director:Claire Lewis
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  12. 8.2/10(30 votes)

    #11 - Van Meegeren

    S1:E3

    Fiona and Philip take a look at the career of forger Han van Meegeren, who managed to fool galleries and buyers in the early 20th century with his fake pieces by Old Masters.

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    Director:Nicky Illis
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  13. 8.2/10(27 votes)

    #12 - Rembrandt

    S1:E4

    Fiona and Philip stop the auction of a painting that used to be a German national treasure but was stolen from it's Jewish owners by the Nazis during the Second World War. They then follow the story as it is discovered whether it is the work of Rembrandt.

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    Director:Ben Southwell
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  14. 8.2/10(42 votes)

    #13 - A Mystery Old Master

    S4:E3

    Fiona and Philip are at a church in Lancashire, once patronised by Yorkshire's famous Bronte sisters, that is the home of a painting thought to have been made by an Italian old master.

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  15. 8.2/10(29 votes)

    #14 - Freud

    S5:E1

    The team investigate a portrait which may have been one of Lucian Freud's first creations.

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  16. 8.2/10(34 votes)

    #15 - Nicholson

    S7:E1

    Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould examine a still life that may have been painted by prolific artist William Nicholson, but which has been rejected by leading experts on his work. They discover a useful source of evidence in Nicholson's own paint box, but as they delve into the painting's history, they discover it may have been connected to one of the 20th century's greatest art crimes. Fiona meets a reformed forger to discover if he ever faked a Nicholson while Philip takes the painting to Canada to compare it to another of the artist's works.

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  17. 8.2/10(39 votes)

    #16 - A Double Whodunnit

    S7:E4

    Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould investigate the origins of two paintings by unknown artists dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries, which unusually for the period, depict black subjects. One is a portrait of Dido Belle, a famous former slave adopted into an aristocratic English family in the 1760s, while the other depicts two children against a tropical landscape, and is believed to have been painted as a protest against the slave trade.

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  18. 8.2/10(27 votes)

    #17 - Cosway or Lawrence?

    S8:E2

    Can the team prove that a portrait attributed to pioneering female artist Maria Cosway is actually an undiscovered work of the great Regency artist Sir Thomas Lawrence?

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    Director:Lucy Swingler
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  19. 8.2/10(18 votes)

    #18 - De Chirico

    S8:E3

    Bought for just £1, could a small still life be the work of one of the masters of early 20th-century art, Giorgio de Chirico?

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    Director:Guy Arthur
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  20. 8.2/10(15 votes)

    #19 - Elisabeth Frink

    S11:E1

    A sculpture found at a car-boot sale in Essex bears striking similarities to the work of Elisabeth Frink. Can the team prove it’s part of an edition sculpted by her in the 1950s?

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  21. 8.2/10(10 votes)

    #20 - Mondrian

    S12:E1

    American artist Jeffrey Kroll believes his flower picture is by one of the pioneers of abstract art, Piet Mondrian. Can the team help him build a case and prove its authenticity?

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  22. 8.1/10(65 votes)

    #21 - Lowry

    S4:E1

    Fiona and art experts Philip Mould and Bendor Grosvenor attempt to help a man who has inherited three paintings supposedly by LS Lowry.

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  23. 8.1/10(26 votes)

    #22 - Gerome

    S9:E2

    Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould investigate a small oil painting of a man praying in a mosque, a scene filled with meticulously painted and intriguing detail. Its owner, Jon Swihart, bought it at auction in 1999 and believed it to be the work of the nineteenth-century French artist Jean-Leon Gerome, who was a leading figure in the Orientalist genre of painting.

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    Director:Guy Arthur
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  24. 8.1/10(11 votes)

    #23 - Flemish Old Master

    S10:E4

    Fiona and Philip visit a church in Port Glasgow to investigate whether a mysterious work depicting Christ after the crucifixion could be a lost masterpiece by one of the great painters of Northern Renaissance art.

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  25. 8.1/10(9 votes)

    #24 - Corot

    S12:E4

    Owner Sally Green believes her landscape painting is by one of the forefathers of impressionism, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Can the team gather new evidence to prove its authenticity?

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  26. 8.0/10(28 votes)

    #25 - Turner: A Miscarriage of Justice?

    S2:E2

    Fiona and Philip take a look at the history of three paintings bequeathed to the National Museum of Wales after their owner died in 1951. It was always thought that the paintings were by landscape artist JMW Turner, but only months after the museum took ownership, experts said that they were fakes.

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    Director:Nicky Illis
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Best Episodes Summary

"Helen McNicoll" is the best rated episode of "Fake or Fortune?". It scored 9.3/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/3/2024. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "Monet".