Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love. Welcome to the World of John Myatt. I was intrigued to unexpectedly find myself sitting alongside Myatt, whose path to jail I had read about in the marvellous 2009 book Provenance, by Laney Salisbury and the late Aly Sujo. Sun 4 Jul 1999 07.12 EDT . He is an art teacher, she’s a nurse. Myatt’s use of materials to create his fakery was inspired, if not altogether conventional, and included household emulsion blended with KY Jelly, whilst often involving emptying the dust bag contents of a vacuum cleaner to work in that aged look to the canvas. But now John Myatt is putting his skills to legitimate use again – using celebrities as models to re-create world-famous masterpieces John with Myleene Klass, who posed as Girl with a Pearl Earring View the profiles of people named John Myatt. Now a legitimate artist, the former teacher has recently appeared on major TV series including BBC1’s Fake or Fortune and Sky Art’s Mastering the Art and Brush with Fame . His criminal period began in 1985, when his first wife left him. being a man who was attempting to do his best for his young family – and aware that this sum of money would eliminate all his outstanding monetary issues in the one fell sweep – he did what a large percentage of society would do; and accepted the ill-gotten gain as a one-off. We happened to be speaking on the same panel at the conference (the 35th International Symposium on Economic Crime), Myatt in his capacity as a convicted forger, and I as the author of a newly published book (Whiteley on Trial) on a fascinating Australian case of alleged art fraud. Nineteenth and twentieth century paintings from £150". Infamous art forger John Myatt reveals his secret: you have to love the artist. He is a Aries and she is a N/A. His wife had walked out and he was raising two children, still in nappies, alone. 096 JUNIPER LEVEL BAPTIST CHURCH NE. Perhaps for this reason it captures the public imagination like no other arts-related subject. John Myatt's fakes were key to what Scotland Yard later called the biggest art fraud of the 20th-century. John is a son of Burrell Myatt, Jr and his first wife, Sarah Stephenson. Cash on collection from Wisbech or will deliver within 25 miles. He has appeared on numerous television programs about art and art fraud, including an episode of Antiques Roadshow. John went to the Brownfield ISD from kindergarten thru his sophomore years and then attended Monterey High School in Lubbock his junior and senior years. They began dating sometime in 1985. Unfortunately Drewe didn’t see this as a somewhat fortuitous chance to feather his nest as a one-off instance, but rather a golden opportunity to build an entire woodland residence. Comparing himself to an actor immersing himself in a role, he says he … We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. He had stopped forging artworks 18 months earlier, cutting ties with Drewe, whose behaviour was becoming increasingly erratic and disturbing; but he knew his day of reckoning would come. That was up until 1986, when Myatt originated a piece on Drewe’s request in the specific style of well-known Cubist painter, Albert Gleizes. turn east on Ten-Ten Rd. ", While Myatt agrees that jail is the appropriate penalty for art fraudsters, he does not view the crime as a transgression against art history or an artist's legacy, a position I find difficult to accept. I bumped into Paul Chapman on the train to Great Yarmouth and, as both of us had cycles, we cycled and reminisced on a ride through the country lanes to Lowestoft. 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