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In the early 20th century in the Netherlands, Han van Meegeren started out as a portrait painter. He painted portraits for well-off
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then went to great lengths to copy the earlier Dutch masters' style, even using 17th century canvases and treating the paints to make them
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appear old and hard. He then “found” the paintings which he 41 were from Vermeer and other Dutch masters. Van Meegeren became
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famous overnight. Though van Meegeren originally had planned to 42 his deception, he soon realized he 43 extremely wealthy
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continuing to paint and then “find” supposedly authentic Dutch master paintings. In 1945, Dutch police arrested van Meegeren for working
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with the Nazis. He had traded one of his “Vermeers" 44 a high-level Nazi commander in exchange for over 100 authentic,
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