The Deceivers — Briefel Bowdoin Faculty Howard came from a family

Howard came from a family with a distinguished history of soldiering: his grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran and his brother

Embroidered BOWDOIN COLLEGE and polar bear mascot medallion on left chest

Collected by John Clair Minot

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1815-1860 on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from December 12

The Deceivers — Briefel Bowdoin Faculty Howard came from a familyBy Aviva BriefelProfessor of English and Cinema Studies The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the past. This rise had profound repercussions on notions of selfhood and national identity within and outside the realm of art. Although art critics denounced forgery for its affront to artistic traditions,