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Robert Lawrence Trotter was convicted in federal court in 1990 of producing and selling fake American primitive style folk art. A methodical ‘reverse engineering’ of one of his confiscated paintings, Village Scene with Horse and Honn & Company Factory, was undertaken to determine what telltale signs might exist to identify this work as a forgery. Currently 39 other Trotter fakes are yet unaccounted for and are potentially circulating on the art market or belong to private or institutional collections. A crescendo approach to the critical examination of this painting began with a simple visual assessment followed by diagnostic imaging using X-ray, near infrared, and UV radiation sources. Non-sampling chemical analysis with X-ray fluorescence and Raman microspectroscopies was conducted next to determine specifically the forger’s materials. Finally, additional information was gathered from invasive sampling approaches including cross section analysis, FTIR microspectroscopy, and pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Copious clues to the work’s inauthenticity exist at every level of investigation. Although simple visual examination would raise questions as to the artwork’s genuineness, diagnostic imaging and chemical analysis prove beyond a doubt that the work is a modern fake. Anachronistic pigments and improbable construction techniques are evidence that this is not an authentic piece of 1860s folk art.
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