Chatterton
Who is Mr. Cumberland in Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd?
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Mr. Cumberland is one of the owners of the art gallery Cumberland and Maitland. After purchasing a group of paintings by the author Seymour, Cumberland discovers he has been duped.... the paintings are merely forged copies. He then decides to sell them anyway.... forgeries or not.
Chatterton