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Han Van Meegeren

Han Van Meegeren (1889 - 1947) was active/lived in Netherlands.  Han Meegeren is known for Portrait painting, art forgery.

Han van Meegeren (October 10, 1889, Deventer, Overijssel - December 30, 1947, Amsterdam), born Henricus Antonius van Meegeren.

He was a Dutch painter and portraitist and is considered to be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.

As a child, van Meegeren developed an enthusiasm for the paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, and later set out to become an artist himself.  When art critics decried his work as tired and derivative, van Meegeren felt that they had destroyed his career.  Thereupon, he decided to prove his talent to the critics by forging paintings of some of the world's most famous artists, including Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Gerard ter Borch and Johannes Vermeer.  He so well replicated the styles and colors of the artists that the best art critics and experts of the time regarded his paintings as genuine and sometimes exquisite.  His most successful forgery was Supper at Emmaus, created in 1937 while living in the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 35015 characters.]  Artist bio

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