Shaun greenhalgh autobiography sample

Shaun Greenhalgh born is a British artist and former art forger. Over a seventeen-year period, between and , he produced a large number of forgeries. The family have been described by Scotland Yard as "possibly the most diverse forgery team in the world, ever". However, when they attempted to sell three Assyrian reliefs using the same provenance as they had previously, suspicions were finally raised.

The Metropolitan Police 's Art and Antiques Unit built a replica model of the shed where the works were created.

Shaun Greenhalgh Allen & Unwin, May 24, - Biography & Autobiography - pages The extraordinary story of one of the greatest living art forgers, who fooled the .

Greenhalgh's family was involved in "the garden shed gang". They established an elaborate cottage industry at his parents' house in The Crescent, Bromley Cross , South Turton , which is about 3. Other members of the family were invoked to help establish the legitimacy of the fake items. These included Olive's father who owned an art gallery, [ 8 ] a great-grandfather who it seemed had had the foresight to buy well at auctions, [ 2 ] and an ancestor who had apparently worked for the Mayor of Bolton as a cleaner and was given a Thomas Moran painting.

In , Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries.

Shaun Greenhalgh left school at 16 with no qualifications. He invested in a large range of different materials — silver, stone, marble, rare stone, replica metal, and glass. The latter probably served as a workshop as well. Detective Constable Ian Lawson of Scotland Yard, who searched the house, gave an indication of Greenhalgh's activities:.

A next-door neighbour recalled: "I was finding bits of pottery and coins around the edges of the garden over 20 years back — [things like] bits of metal with old kings on. Angela Thomas, a curator from the Bolton Museum , actually visited the family at home prior to the purchase of the Amarna Princess and reported nothing untoward.