The Art Detective : Fakes, Frauds and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures (Hardcover)

from ChristineEllei

Mr. Mould is a dealer is British art and Old Masters as well as being a featured art expert on BBC episodes of The Antiques Road Show. He is considered one of the world's foremost experts on British portraiture. One would think this would lead to a stuffy textbook like approach to his writing. No...

from denmoir

Entertaining and informative glimpse of the top end art dealer's world - the research involved in determining a painting's provenance, the ways of restoring painting, the excitement of discovery.

from michigantrumpet

Philip Mould will be familiar to viewers of the BBC version of Antiques Roadshow and the latest 'Fakes or Frauds'. In his off-television person, he is a successful art gallery owner, specializing in uncovering lost artistic treasures beneath layers of overpaint and mis-attribution. In The Art Det...

from JGolomb

I'm not an art connoisseur by any stretch, although I do have my tastes and don't mind the occasional museum stroll. I love history and I love a good story. When you combine art, history and terrific storytelling, you come out with a book like "The Art Detectives" by Philip Mould. The book is str...

from Hanneri

Mould, a well-known dealer featured on the original version of Antiques Roadshow, has written an easily accessible book for the layperson intrigued by attribution, which combines both art and science into a magical profession. Those interested in the how will be rewarded, as will those merely int...