Alfred Wallis, Fake Artworks

Duke's Auctioneers fined over Alfred Wallis fakes, BBC Dorset

"A Dorset auction house has been ordered to pay more than £18,000 after advertising fake artworks it claimed were by Cornish artist Alfred Wallis. Duke's Auctioneers of Dorchester admitted eight charges under unfair trading regulations. The prosecution was brought by Dorset County Council's Trading Standards over fakes shown for sale in a brochure and on its website".