Fake or Fortune
(2010)Streaming Episode Guide
Series 11 | Series 10 | Series 9 | Series 8 | Series 7 | Series 6 | Series 5 | Series 4 | Series 3 | Series 2 | Series 1 | Top 5 Episodes
Series 11
Journalist Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould investigate mysteries behind paintings.Arshile Gorky
Episode 4 - 10-17-2023
Could a mysterious canvas covered in white paint be hiding a lost painting by one of the most important painters of the 20th century, Armenian-American artist Arshile Gorky?
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Cezanne and Pissarro
Episode 3 - 10-10-2023
Could two simple sketches be by great French artists Pissarro and Cezanne? The team set out to gather evidence to prove they’re genuine.
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Joshua Reynolds
Episode 2 - 10-03-2023
A painting bought from an online auction in Monaco described as 'in the style of Sir Joshua Reynolds' looks promising, but could something murkier be lurking beneath the paint?
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Elisabeth Frink
Episode 1 - 9-26-2023
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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Series 10
Philip Mould and Fiona Bruce team up to investigate more art world mystery and intrigue.Flemish Old Master
Episode 4 - 9-13-2022
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.
7.9/10There are no streaming sources for this episode in your country. Sources available in: Great Britain, Australia
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Sisley
Episode 3 - 9-06-2022
Fiona Bruce, Philip Mould and the team help Americans Kim and Chuck, who believe their landscape painting is by one of the founders of Impressionism, Alfred Sisley, building a case to prove its authenticity. Kim and Chuck bought the work at auction near Chicago and believe it to be genuine. However, the painting was turned down nearly 10 years ago by the authentication committee, so the team will have to find new evidence to persuade them to change their mind.
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Modigliani
Episode 2 - 8-30-2022
Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould investigate a delicate sketch depicting a mother and child, purported to be by one of the modern art world's most famous names, Amedeo Modigliani. Its owner, Henrietta Sitwell, inherited the work and always believed it to be genuine. However, a leading auction house recently cast doubt on its authenticity. If the work is genuine, it could be worth up to £100,000. If not, just a few hundred.
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Ben Nicholson
Episode 1 - 8-23-2022
When Ian and Julie moved into their Surrey cottage nearly 20 years ago, they discovered a curious wall painting in one of the bedrooms. They had no idea who put it there. Julie wanted to get rid of it as it didn't match her decor plans, while their four-year-old wanted to colour it in with her crayons.
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Series 9
Philip Mould and Fiona Bruce team up to investigate more art world mystery and intrigue.A King's Last Supper
Episode 4 - 8-18-2021
59m
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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Landseer
Episode 3 - 8-11-2021
59m
The team investigate a powerful scene of the aftermath of battle; could it be a work by celebrated Victorian artist Edwin Landseer, thought to be destroyed by a flood in 1928?
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Gerome
Episode 2 - 8-04-2021
59m
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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A Sculpture in the Brambles
Episode 1 - 7-28-2021
59m
A sculpture found in the long grass of a Norfolk home bears striking similarities to the work of Henry Moore. Could it be a lost work by one of the greatest 20th-century artists?
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Series 8
Philip Mould and Fiona Bruce investigate more thrilling cases of art world intrigue.A Venetian View
Episode 4 - 8-15-2019
The team investigates a beautiful 18th-century Venetian view. Could this be a work by one of the Italian masters - either Francesco Guardi or Michele Marieschi?
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De Chirico
Episode 3 - 8-08-2019
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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Cosway or Lawrence?
Episode 2 - 8-01-2019
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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The Lost Gainsborough
Episode 1 - 7-25-2019
The team investigate an 18th-century landscape that could be a lost work by of one of the biggest names in British art, Thomas Gainsborough.
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Series 7
Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould investigate mysteries behind paintings.Giacometti
Episode 5 - 9-09-2018
The team try to find out whether a white square of plaster is an early work by Giacometti.
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A Double Whodunnit
Episode 4 - 9-02-2018
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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Henry Moore
Episode 3 - 8-26-2018
Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould investigate a small watercolour sketch that could be the work of sculptor Henry Moore. The piece was found in 2012 in a hoard of artwork stolen by the Nazis. While the unidentified piece has many characteristics of Moore's work, none of the other artworks recovered were by British artists, so it remains a mystery how it came to be there. The team must not only find out who created it, but also who it belonged to, since it may have been looted from Jewish owners during the Holocaust and will need to be returned to surviving descendants.
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Toulouse-Lautrec
Episode 2 - 8-19-2018
Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould must prove that a sketchbook is the work of a young Toulouse-Lautrec, overturning a decision made by a committee of experts on the artist. The drawings in the book are of a very different subject matter to Lautrec's famous works, and are dated to when he was a teenager - a period of his life that is largely a mystery. To get to the truth, Fiona and Philip travel to the town in the south of France where Lautrec grew up and visit the grand family home where he spent much of his youth.
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Nicholson
Episode 1 - 8-13-2018
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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Series 6
Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould investigate mysteries behind paintings.Gauguin
Episode 3 - 9-10-2017
The team examine two pictures believed to be by Paul Gauguin, a giant of 19th-century art.
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Tom Roberts
Episode 2 - 9-03-2017
Is a purchase from an online auction site a lost work by Australian artist Tom Roberts?
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Constable
Episode 1 - 8-20-2017
The team try to find out whether a painting is a lost masterpiece by John Constable.
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Series 5
Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould investigate mysteries behind paintings.Portraits
Episode 4 - 8-21-2016
Featuring works claimed to be by Willem de Kooning, Philip Mercier and Adolph von Menzel.
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Rodin
Episode 3 - 7-31-2016
A sketch of a dancer believed to have been drawn by Auguste Rodin is investigated.
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Delaroche
Episode 2 - 7-24-2016
The team try to prove the authenticity of a suspected lost masterpiece by Paul Delaroche.
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Series 4
Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould investigate mysteries behind paintings.Munnings and Churchill
Episode 4 - 7-26-2015
Fiona and Philip attempt to help Under-Sheriff and Secondary of London Charles Henty find out whether two paintings in his possession are as valuable as he believes.
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A Mystery Old Master
Episode 3 - 7-19-2015
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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Renoir
Episode 2 - 7-12-2015
Nicky Philipps needs help in determining whether a mysterious painting housed at Picton Castle in Pembrokeshire is a genuine piece of work by French Impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir.
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Lowry
Episode 1 - 7-05-2015
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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Series 3
Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould investigate mysteries behind paintings.Gainsborough
Episode 4 - 2-09-2014
This week the focus is on Britain's public art collections, in which 17,000 paintings are listed as `artist unknown'. Philip identify several works they believe are by Thomas Gainsborough.
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Chagall
Episode 3 - 2-02-2014
58m
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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Constable
Episode 2 - 1-26-2014
58m
Fiona and Philip attempt to prove that two paintings are missing works by one of the country's best-loved artists, John Constable.
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Vuillard
Episode 1 - 1-19-2014
58m
Fiona and Philip attempt to help a man who believes he owns a painting by French post-impressionist Edouard Vuillard.
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Series 2
Journalist Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould investigate mysteries behind paintings.Van Dyck: What Lies Beneath
Episode 3 - 9-30-2012
58m
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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Turner: A Miscarriage of Justice?
Episode 2 - 9-23-2012
58m
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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Degas and the Little Dancer
Episode 1 - 9-16-2012
58m
Fiona and Philip examine a painting that owner Patrick Rice thinks is by Edgar Degas. If its genuine, it could be worth about £500,000. They trace the artwork back through time to find out whether it really was created by one of France's greatest artists.
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Series 1
Journalist Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould investigate mysteries behind paintings.Rembrandt
Episode 4 - 7-10-2011
59m
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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Van Meegeren
Episode 3 - 7-03-2011
59m
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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Homer
Episode 2 - 6-26-2011
59m
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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Monet
Episode 1 - 6-19-2011
58m
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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Monet
Episode 1 - 6-19-2011
58m
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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Van Dyck: What Lies Beneath
Episode 3 - 9-30-2012
58m
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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Homer
Episode 2 - 6-26-2011
59m
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.
8.6/10Where to watch
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Chagall
Episode 3 - 2-02-2014
58m
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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Vuillard
Episode 1 - 1-19-2014
58m
Fiona and Philip attempt to help a man who believes he owns a painting by French post-impressionist Edouard Vuillard.
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