[Martin Tell]

"the numbers of his painters ..."

I didn't know he used the paint-by-numbers method. That explains a lot.

[longtermmemmory]

he actually used surrogates and assembly line techniques.

he would paint a small bit or a stroke on a painting and claim it as his own and charge accordingly.

[davisfh]

Yep. Something wrong here. The whole thing is grammatically clumsy. It’s hard to believe that a professional writer penned this.