Art Controversy Unveiled: Fake Or Fortune Exposed | Perspective 

Eagle eye Philip MOULD looks at a portrait far across a crowded room and says: "It's a TOM LAWRENCE" That's all the evidence I need. This is a fabulous episode. BRAVO 👏!!!

Gorgeous portrait. This show never disappoints.

I find that there is resemblance between gentleman in the portrait and descendants. 2 million would put smile on my face too. Fascinating.

The young man depicted is not only painted skillfully but his physical beauty certainly must add value to this portraiture.

"It's like being present at a baptism, and the name is Lawrence." I love that line.

The Peniston portrait is magical. It has a Diamondtine crystal clear alive alertness, the eyes, and the standout lips in particular. Out of curiosity, I went to the Lawrence gallery and found that for Lawrence, lips were a very serious feature in his paintings. It's a masterpiece.

What an amazing journey. Bravo to Philip Mould and congratulations to the family.

Having spent the past 42 years working in the art world, I have said on countless occasions that a world of bother could easily be avoided if only artists bothered to sign their goddamned work!

I have to say I agreed with Phillip from the start. The hair and scarf were so much like Lawrence, and i found Cosway's portraits to be much less mature. Great episode!

I immediately thought that this was a Lawrence and it was reinforced almost as soon as I saw the Duchess of Devonshire Goddess portrait by Cosway, and the Queen by Lawrence. Even so, every clue just made me more stubborn, too. The feeling of the painting of PL absolutely screamed at me. I really enjoyed this video and was unsurprised at the result. That is due to these shows and to my personal study of paintings and artists but by all means I am no expert and was so happy it was judged to be Lawrence. Its a wonderful portrait.

What a gripping show! Fake or Fortune always delivers an artistic thriller.

Wow! What a talent Sir Thomas Lawrence was -- there's so much delicacy to this portrait it's almost as true to life as a modern day high quality photo and his treatment of fabric -- just dazzling!

The Caroline Lamb mentioned in connection with the painting was the erratic and infamous one who pursued Lord Byron. Her husband, Peniston’s brother , seemed to have put up with a lot but been very good to her despite all her antics.

I love this art program! I watched Philip's videos on RU-vid during the pandemic. I would just be happy with that 18th century gentleman's portrait, no matter who painted it. It is beautiful!💕🇬🇧

Not for nothing though, but the two painters in this episode, while kinda similar in styles, were pretty distinct in many ways..

What a delightful show. My first time seeing this. Not really an art fan per se but found the whole episode riveting and insightful. Thank you! 🌷🌷

How Lovely to have the Delightful Cedric bless us with his Handsome Self! Thank you, Philip!

What an absolutely fabulous series Perspective had going here. Learning a great deal and enjoying each and every episode whether the paintings are pearls or pebbles. Bravo!

I’m so enjoying the history of these paintings. I’ve always been a bit of a dreamer with regards to the past 😊

A really interesting documentary and a beautiful portrait. Thanks for uploading :)

It's a Lawrence, definitely....the style! I write this long before the video has finished.

Splendid work.. I am enthralled by the investigation

Another great chapter. Fully entertaining and educational. It also had me thinking how brief each life is, even if lived into one's eighties (I just turned 71). A reminder to live each day to its fullest.

What an exciting mystery and an exciting conclusion. The clues were very compelling.

Bravo! Guys you did a great job uncovering the true origins of this painting! Philip you really do have a keen eye for portrait details! Both of you are excellent sleuths! This show never disappoints. 👏🏼

Excellent series. Like a mini Agatha Christie novel. No crime, but unveiling layer upon layer until we can rest on a solid conclusion emereging due to broad and in-depth investigations. Philip has a great expertice and a good hunch looking for socalled sleepers and more. However, there are also good reasons to underline the importance given by Fiona in these (and other) series. Surprised so see that her part in this is rarely mentioned in comments below. Both of them are my heroes here. As a team they are dinamite! Keep up your good work - BOTH of you! And to all: Don't forget Fiona's part in it. Go girl!!!🙂

Another wonderful video, very interesting in how the artists was identified.

Genealogy, validation, certification… love genuine research.

Wonderful research and entertainment! Thank you.

Obvious difference in stylistics between the two artists.

There was absolutely no comparison of the brilliance of Lawrence's paintings compared to the drab mythological Cosway's we saw in this marvellous Episode. When we first saw the Duchess Georgianna it was plainly obvious that Cosway was NOT the artist of the Lamb portrait. A cuckoo's egg laid by the "short sighted" amateur Mary Boyle was the culprit. Thanks to the keen eye of Phillip Mould the wastrel scion Peniston Lamb was proven to have had a much more refined taste in choosing to be painted by Thomas Lawrence rather than Maria Cosway.

This was a wonderful journey. It left me wondering if perhaps the lineage of the two lookalike painting were interchanged and the other one was indeed the coswell.

I love watching this type of content. 👍

Love the red velvet coat from the late 18th century. And the portrait.

Listening to you describe the artwork is a verbal masterpiece for my ears. I have an even greater appreciation for the piece after hearing your description of it. Thank-you

just a marvelous story of an excellent investigation :)

Fascinating stuff. Good job. 🎨🖌

...great to see Cedric again!

I knew it!! The style was much more sophisticated than the Cosway "goddess." Great show!

My parents were Diplomatic during the Cold War Era. In 1965, we lived in New Delhi. My father's houseman was a Nepalese Gurkha. His name was Charlie, and the whole family adored him! He was very small, reed thin, and looked old enough to have babysat God. He had a wonderful, wise face. My parents commissioned an artist to do an oil portrait of him. My brother and I watched it being done. This portrait has had an honourable place in my parents' home right up to their passing. All of us said good morning, goodnight. As we walked out the door. We said. We're off Charlie. Watch the house. Coming in. Hey Charlie, we're home. I have Charlie's portrait now. My parents' urn sits on a table under it. My parents passed 2 weeks about. I was with them both. I cleared the house. I hand carried their urn to my home. It was not until I was looking at Charlie in my home that their deaths really hit me. As I said, my brother and I watched the artist. I was 5/6, my brother is 5 years older. We didn't care who the guy was. He used a trawl, not a brush. It was cool! We would like to know now. We would like to know if it needs to be cleaned. It will never ever be sold! To us it is priceless. I live in Europe. I have no idea who to ask. Not to mention trust! Can anyone give me any idea's? I would appreciate it. Thank you.

Loved this episode!

I love all the shows, but especially this one. He was and is beautiful....

Wonderful documentary,thank you!

Such a marvellous painting. 😊

riveting...loved this episode.

That is a beautiful painting.

Try to imagine how delightful it is for this artist stuck here in Alabama, US to get to escape for an hour to London in the company of Philip & Feona for an adventure.

This has got to be my favorite painting, and favorite program of all ive seen so far.

Portrait art of the last centuries tell us so much. This was very informative...I didn't know the amount of portraits done by Sir Thomas was so large. I always thought Moriah Cosway painted miniatures. It's not surprising this young man died young. Tb was a very communicable disease in the 19th and 20th centuries. My own great aunt spent time in a tb sanatorium. Good film on painting and related history.

This is my new favorite show. In loved this episode particularly.

One of the best of the series, I truly enjoyed the ride to find the truth. Lovely, truly lovely. THANK YOU

I 've just found this show on YT and really enjoy watching!!

That this turns out to not be a Cosway does not detract in any way from her importance and greatness as an artist.

my favorite episode yet, good job

What a joy to watch this beautiful presentation of art history!

Fantastic episode. Thank you.

Gorgeous painting. Very exciting episode. What a wonderful revelation!

Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you.

Congrats to Phillip again for his keen eye and extensive knowledge!!!

I'm confused they thought he was "ugly" in the painting... I watched this video due to just seeing the thumbnail screen shot of the painting and found both the manner of the painting with the hair, but his face and I like the "Mozart" era lots of history going on then... all nice looking; had to see what and how it was. No matter who painted it, it's a great painting. And glad they'll keep it in the family; or at least try to do so. Spoilers below: And I agree at the end; it looks like by Lawrence. Was actually hoping it was by Cosway (I think it would be special to be painted by a woman and of that time and more rare too). But it doesn't look so. Either way, it's amazing painting... and either way worth LOTS of money LOL! But better than that... it's just stands out. Even if it was painted by the local shoe shine boy. I can't believe the family didn't notice it long ago... it sort of sticks out there; and with all that history. And on the female side... that's amazing. It is likely they all share not just some nucleus chromosomes DNA... but also (only the female (mother) line passes down) they may all share in each of them the mitochondrial dna.

A great episode to learn about 2 wonderful artists!

I enjoy this show very much. Thank you!

As a graduate of Mr. Jefferson's University my attention was captured as soon as Maria Cosway's name was mentioned.

This was excellent!! Thank you.

Excellent episode Going to do a deep dive on Lawrence, the ability to just catch that moment in the painting is jaw dropping

Such a beautiful work of art! It glows!

Thank you, I get. enormous pleasure from your episodes!! Wonderful detective work to find that it was by Lawerence.

This is one of the few cases where the family aren't pressing for the more valuable attribution, but the hosts are.

Philip Mould has an eye to immediately spot out unique qualities and characteristics in any art, which normal people can't do.

Completely taken by your presentation and the story…another smashing show…well done…stay safe..

Great episode!

Such a great episode!

Fascinating detective work!

Wow! Great show I've never seen it before! I personally love the painting and Pennistone! He died so young. It's nice to think that a part of him still remains in this beautiful portrait.

Very much Appreciate the Art Work an amazing pieces in this show an the divulging of the information and the details are extremely intriguing Thanks for sharing an Congratulation to Philip Mould and the Family of course

48:37 This is some Sixth Sense level goose bumps right here! Wow! What a fantastic episode!

Fascinating story of a magnificent portrait

I loved the painting from the moment i saw it. All the fine skill of the greats.

I've been watching for 2 weeks quite enjoyable wish you great success from Fresno California ❤❤❤ Oz.

Thanks!

SPOILER: Lawrence already has many masterpieces. I've long been a Cosway fan and am disappointed to see her deprived of such a masterpiece. The technical analysis was not totally scientific in that there was no comparison with Cosway Infrared or x-ray as a "control." That is like saying a drug works when you only test it on a single patient without comparing it to another drug and /or person. The most convincing evidence was the inventory request by Penniston's sister.

Cosway has a cartoonish bent to her faces. The portrait doesn't. I would have thought it was a Lawrence too!

Awesome outcome fantastic.journey.

Phenomenal.

Maria Cosway is more famous In Virginia than Thomas Lawrence because of her friendship with another Thomas, the American ambassador to France.

FABULOUS - thank you for posting this - just wonderful - it's actually moved me to tears.

Good on Phillip! As an artist and not a historian I could not pick out the painting as a Lawrence but I knew at the beginning as soon as I saw the two examples that it wasn’t a Cosway.

The depth of the eyes is what holds me. You can see the liquid in them. It’s amazing!

I think this picture of Penniston looks like Lawrence's painting of The 6th Earl of Carlisle who married Little G Cavendish. I'm an American who adores British history. THE HISTORY!!!!! You cannot make it up.

I have never seen this portrait. She is a somewhat distant relative. Lovely...

Cedric is so well behaved and elegant!

The best who done it so far.

Very interesting!

It appears Cosway was influenced by Vigee LeBrun. Cosway’s self portrait looks quite a bit like LeBrun’s. I don’t know if the women ever met but they had to see each others art. Cosway was born 5 years after LeBrun. They were contemporaries albeit from different countries. They both used hats as props for female sitters including LeBrun’s paintings of Marie Antoinette. Perhaps the value of Cosway’s paintings should be reassessed.

I suspect Peter underestimated the value of this portrait, for the renowned Lawrence Art Experts, without hesitation, compared it to the Portrait of Queen Charlotte in the National Gallery, and in the same era, 1790. I would expect the portrait, in a friendly market, would actually fetch 2 Million Pounds. What's more overtly amazing in this video, is the Human Mind, specifically our Lower Mind aka Ego Mind, which is the keeper of our learned idea, thus the "Social Mentality", and how observably evident the right points make sway to our *perspective ". ... but then, that's my more experienced "gig". Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian

Just loved all the twists and turns in this, brilliant sleuthing! But the two pictures featured at the end of Pen? To which one was Emily referring in her handwritten book, the one with the red coat, or the subject of this investigation? Presumably both were by Laurence...

That was cool.

With the x-ray and that splash at the top right he might’ve been comparing colors

I wish more had been said about the older version of his face that showed in the forensic photos. It made me wonder if perhaps the younger prettier face was a paint over so that both artists actually were involved?

What a great episode. I thought the camera work and choice of music was exceptional for this episode. Can anyone explain why the the x-ray shows such a different face and hair? Did it start out as an older representation and then changed for some reason?