Shaun Greenhalgh was born on 1961 and is a British artist and former art forger.
13 Facts About Shaun Greenhalgh
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Many of Shaun Greenhalgh's fakes, including the Amarna Princess, a version of the Roman Risley Park Lanx, and works supposedly by Barbara Hepworth and Thomas Moran, were displayed.
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Shaun Greenhalgh attempted a wide range of crafts, from painting in pastels and watercolours, to sketches, and sculpture, both modern and ancient, busts and statues, to bas-relief and metalwork.
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Shaun Greenhalgh did meticulous research to authenticate his items with histories and provenance in order to demonstrate his ownership.
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Shaun Greenhalgh was the frontman, who met face-to-face with potential buyers.
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At the time, as Shaun Greenhalgh had researched, only two other similar statuettes were known to exist in the world.
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Shaun Greenhalgh "knocked up" his copy in his shed in three weeks out of calcite, "using basic DIY tools and making it look old by coating it in a mixture of tea and clay".
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Shaun Greenhalgh pretended to be ignorant about its true worth or value, but was careful to provide the letters Shaun had faked, showing how the artefact had been in the family for "a hundred years".
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The Shaun Greenhalgh family did not appear to make much use of the money they gained.
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Police suggested that Shaun Greenhalgh was motivated less by profit than by resentment at his own lack of recognition as an artist.
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Shaun Greenhalgh repeated his claim to be the creator in a May 2017 interview with Simon Parkin in The Guardian, observing that he had studied the work again when it was exhibited at the Villa Reale di Monza in 2015.
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On 4 January 2009, BBC Two broadcast a dramatisation of the Shaun Greenhalgh story called The Antiques Rogue Show, a play on the title of the BBC series Antiques Road Show, already used by headline writers.
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Shaun Greenhalgh appeared in the 2012 BBC documentary The Dark Ages: An Age of Light and is listed as "Craftsman" in the credits.