Reply #163: I am not making assumptions. I am stating facts.

[qwghlmian]

1. Copying someone's art and selling it as your own is illegal, if the original work is under copyright and the copier did not get permission.

2. Churchill made a copy of someone's art and sold it as his own.

3. Churchill presented no proof that he got permission and the people who hold the copyright claim he violated it.

All these are not assumptions. They are facts. This is apart from the dishonesty of Churchill's claiming that the art was his original art (which is what the buyer of it says Churchill told him).