Forger Sentenced for Swindling Collectors with Woodcuts Attributed to German Renaissance Masters

A man has been sentenced to four years in prison for selling 15th century European woodcuts falsely attributed to Hans Holbein and Albrecht Dürer, among other famous artists, Department of Justice officials announced Tuesday.According to a federal indictment filed in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, within the last decade Earl Marshawn Washington, 61, swindled French and American collectors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars with such replicas.Washington, with the help of his then-