The Greatest Dutch Artists

Birthdate: October 10, 1889

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Deventer, Netherlands

Died: December 30, 1947

Han van Meegeren was a Dutch painter best remembered for his skills as an art forger; he successfully forged and sold paintings attributed to famous and respected painters like Johannes Vermeer among other Dutch masters. Han van Meegeren developed this art in order to humiliate art critics of his time who had ridiculed his original works.