The Art of Faking
Han van Meegeren was a Dutch painter, but he is best known for faking art. He was a forger, an artist who copies famous works of art and sells them as the real thing. Between 1923 and 1945, van Meegeren forged many paintings that he sold for millions of dollars. He was finally arrested in 1945 for selling a painting that he claimed was by Jan Vermeer, a
