Dan Morphy sells an "oil painting of a young artist". It's clearly the self-portrait by Vigée le Brun from the Watford Museum. UPDATE: sold for $350.
The top lot at Catawiki is an "Unknown artist (20th century)", described as an "unknown but very good master". The master that painted the original, yes, not the copiist here (a very recent copy, by the looks of it, but e.g. the faces are all wrong). It is another painting by Cot, "The Storm", also in the Metropolitan Museum. UPDATE: sold for 281 Euro.
Another Catawiki auction presents an "Anonymous" "Old Painting", which is actually a very recent copy of an old painting instead. The original by Jean Raoux is in the Wallace Collection. UPDATE: sold for 45 Euro
Some are nearly insulting. Barridoff sells a "Dutch or English school, 18th c." oil on canvas on masonite. Any "on masonite" old master should be considered very suspicious in my opinion. This one is a copy of the portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels by Rembrandt. Obviously an obscure painting which took me an immense effort to discover. UPDATE: sold for $1,600
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