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Fake Paintings Sold For Millions

The is one of the biggest fine art scams in history. By the time he was caught in 1997, John Drewe had pulled off the biggest art fraud in U.K. history. Drewe met a struggling art teacher with a flare for reproductions and conned him into painting hundreds of fakes. Later, Drewe posed as a wealthy patron of the arts to gain access to museum archives and plant false records that supported the authenticity of his faux masterpieces.