Is A Harvard Rembrandt A Fake?

“In a forthcoming biography of the colorful Hollywood artist, bon vivant, and art forger John Decker, Stephen Jordan includes an account of how Decker and his friend Will Fowler forged a Rembrandt ‘Bust of Christ’ for actor (‘Stagecoach,’ ‘Gone With the Wind,’ ‘Lost Horizon’) Thomas Mitchell, an amateur art collector. ‘Not long after Mitchell passed away,’ Jordan writes, ‘the painting fetched $35,000 as an early Rembrandt. Today, the painting hangs at Harvard University’s prestigious Fogg Art Museum — hailed as a true Rembrandt.'”