Bendor Grosvenor
Actor · b. 1977 · London, United Kingdom
Bendor Grosvenor is a British art historian, writer and broadcaster who specializes in Old Masters and British portraiture. A former art dealer, he became widely known through Fake or Fortune?, where his archival and provenance research helped investigate disputed works of art. He later co-presented the BBC series Britain’s Lost Masterpieces and has identified several previously misattributed paintings in British public collections.
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TV8.6DocumentaryRealityJournalist Fiona Bruce teams up with art expert Philip Mould to investigate the provenance or attribution of notable artworks.
Fake or Fortune?
2011 · 14 votes
TVDocumentarySeries tracking down lost, hidden, and misattributed paintings from local museums and galleries across Britain.
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MovieDocumentaryIn 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery's iconic portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the rebel Stuart who almost seized power in 1745, was not in fact him. Keen to make amends, and suspecting that a long-lost portrait of the prince by one of Scotland's greatest artists, Allan Ramsay, might still survive, Bendor decides to retrace Charles's journey in the hope of unravelling one of the greatest mysteries in British art.