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Season 1

  • S01E01 Myleene Klass

    • February 5, 2011
    • Sky Arts

    Classical pianist, TV presenter and former Hear’Say band member Myleene Klass poses for John Myatt's stunning recreation of Jan Vermeer’s masterwork, Girl With A Pearl Earring.

  • S01E02 James May

    • Sky Arts

    Former art forger John Myatt attempts to paint Top Gear presenter James May into the place of the chiselled 'Brad' in Roy Lichtenstein's pop art piece In The Car.

  • S01E03 Julia Bradbury

    • Sky Arts

    Countryfile presenter Julia Bradbury sheds the fleece and walking boots to model nude as the sensual Greek goddess in Peter Paul Ruben's Venus In Front Of the Mirror.

  • S01E04 Ronnie Wood

    • Sky Arts

    Used to causing shockwaves, Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood poses as one of the fully- dressed men surrounding the female nude in Edouard Manet's controversial Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe.

  • S01E05 Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter

    • Sky Arts

    Oscar-nominated Imelda Staunton and her actor husband Jim Carter represent the married couple in David Hockney's tension-filled apartment scene Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy.

  • S01E06 Stephen Fry

    • Sky Arts

    Catholic Church critic Stephen Fry cheekily poses as the powerful and leering Pope Innocent X from Diego Velazquez's 1644 portrait.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Paul O'Grady

    • Sky Arts

    Master forger John Myatt replaces characters in famous works of art with his celebrity guests. First up is Paul O’Grady who asks to be painted into Grant Wood’s American Gothic.

  • S02E02 Frank Skinner

    • Sky Arts

    Comedian Frank Skinner poses as the troubled Post- Impressionist in van Gogh’s Self-Portrait With Felt Hat. Can John Myatt immortalise him in a masterpiece worthy of hanging space?

  • S02E03 Terry Gilliam

    • Sky Arts

    John Myatt is forced to use pastels for the first time in 40 years, as Brazil director Terry Gilliam asks to be immortalised as The Buddha in Odilon Redon’s tricky 1904 work.

  • S02E04 Lauren Laverne

    • Sky Arts

    DJ Lauren Laverne sits as the Chinese Girl in Vladimir Tretchikoff's kitsch 1950 portrait and, as John Myatt points out, she couldn't look any more different to the 'Green Lady'...

  • S02E05 Tamsin Grieg

    • Sky Arts

    Actress Tamsin Grieg sits for John Myatt as the Lady Agnew of Lochnaw by John Singer Sargent.

  • S02E06 Catherine Tate

    • Sky Arts

    Master art forger John Myatt transforms Queen of comedy Catherine Tate into Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse by Joshua Reynolds.