Fake or Fortune? S8E1 — The Lost Gainsborough

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Fake or Fortune?•Season 8•Episode 1

The Lost Gainsborough

7.9/10 · 33 votesJul 25, 201958 min

Ranked #4 of 4 in Season 8•−0.1 vs season avg

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The team examines an eighteenth-century landscape that may be Thomas Gainsborough’s lost painting Wooded Landscape with Gipsies Round a Camp Fire. Old exhibition records, labels and auction numbers appear to support the attribution, while imaging reveals an earlier portrait hidden beneath the landscape. The case

Directed byNicky Illis

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Cast3

Fiona Bruce

Self - Presenter

Philip Mould

Self - Presenter

Aviva Burnstock

Self - Technical Specialist

Crew12

Rick Holbrook

Editor

Dougie Fairgrieve

Sound

Dan Gill

Colorist

Julia Armstrong-Totten

Researcher

Alan Hill

Sound

Mark Bell

Commissioning Editor

Nicky Illis

Producer

Nicky Illis

Director

Lucy Swingler

Producer

Martin Evanson

Sound

Aviva Burnstock

Production Consultant

Fraser Rice

Camera Operator

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Episode Summary

"The Lost Gainsborough" is episode 1 of Fake or Fortune? season 8. It scored 7.9/10 from 33 votes, ranking #4 of 4 episodes this season (season average 8.0). Directed by Nicky Illis, it aired on July 25, 2019.

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