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He was born in London. In 1976 he admitted that a series of pictures supposedly by Samuel Palmer were in fact by him. He estimated that more than 2000 of his forgeries were in ciculation. He was tried for forgery in 1979, but the case was dropped on account of his bad health.
Keating went on to present television programmes on painting and jointly wrote the book The Fake's Progress (Hutchinson, London, 1977) with Geraldine and Frank Norman.