Jacques van Meegeren
Jacques Henri Emil van Meegeren (26 August 1912 – 26 October 1977) was a Dutch illustrator and painter.
He is also considered to be a forger of the work of his father, Han van Meegeren, a forger of old masters who became known for this.
He was, however, less gifted and his forgeries adversely affected the reputation of his father's work.
Jonathan Lopez (writer)
Jonathan Lopez is an American writer and art historian.
Born in 1969 in New York City, he was educated there and at Harvard.
He writes a monthly column for Art & Antiques called "Talking Pictures" and is a frequent contributor to London-based Apollo:
The International Magazine of the Arts.
His noted December 2007 "Apollo" article "Gross False Pretences" related the details of an acrimonious 1908 dispute between the art dealer Leo Nardus and the wealthy industrialist Peter Arrell Brown Widener of Philadelphia.
Lopez has also written for ARTnews, the Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune, and the Dutch newsweekly De Groene Amsterdammer.
His book, "The Man Who Made Vermeers" is a biography of the Dutch art forger Han van Meegeren.
Lopez has written extensively on Van Meegeren in both Dutch and English, including an "Apollo" article entitled "Han van Meegeren's Early Vermeers," which revealed that Van Meegeren was behind three Vermeer forgeries of the 1920s that had been floated on the international market by an organized ring of art swindlers based in London and Berlin.
Two of the three forgeries in question were purchased by the art dealer Joseph Duveen who then sold them in good faith to the great Pittsburgh banker Andrew Mellon.
At the time, Mellon was serving as secretary of the Treasury in the administration of President Calvin Coolidge.
Unaware of his error, Mellon ultimately donated these two "Vermeers" as part of his founding gift to the National Gallery of Art in Washington,
D.C. They hung there through the 1960s as genuine works by Johannes Vermeer, until technical analysis revealed them to be modern forgeries.
These works are now kept in storage, and although rumors have existed about their true origins for many years, they have never before been traced back definitively to Van Meegeren, a figure far better known for his later exploits, which included selling a fake Vermeer to Hermann Göring at the height of World War II.
The "Apollo" article summarizes the conventional account of Van Meegeren's career as follows: "As is fairly well known, the government of the Netherlands arrested Van Meegeren as a Nazi collaborator at the end of the Second World War, charging that he had sold a priceless Vermeer to Göring during the German occupation.
When Van Meegeren revealed that he himself had painted Göring's prized masterpiece, the news made him quite popular with the general public, and his case was thereafter handled with kid gloves.
He only acknowledged forging the six biblically themed Vermeers that the government already knew to be connected to him through the strawmen who had brought the works to market; two Pieter de Hoochs sold in the same manner; and a few unfinished items that remained in his atelier.
Although confidential sources informed the investigative team working on the case that Van Meegeren had sold forgeries to 'Englishmen and Americans' decades before the outbreak of hostilities, the matter seems not to have received any official attention."
Supporting his argument with archival documents and interviews with the descendants of Van Meegeren's partners in crime, Lopez suggests that these rumors about Van Meegeren had a strong foundation in reality and, indeed, that much of what the forger said about himself in 1945 was untruthful.
Not only was Van Meegeren a professional art forger for most of his adult life, but he was also a fascist sympathizer going back as far as 1928.
During the occupation, Van Meegeren had created propagandistic artworks (under his own name) at the behest of the German-installed puppet government of the Netherlands and even sent an admiring note to Adolf Hitler in 1942 as a token of esteem.
Koen Kleijn, the art and culture editor of "De Groene", has stated that Lopez's work "shatters the popular image of Han van Meegeren as a lone gunman or picaresque rogue."
Lopez lives in Manhattan with his wife, who is an art critic and professor of art history.
Boebi van Meegeren
Robert Andre Lothar van Meegeren, known as" BoebiRobert" or" Rob",( born 20 August 1924) was a Dutch tennis player.
He competed in the 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, and 1953 Wimbledon Championships, reaching the second round once in 1950.
He also competed in the 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, and 1955 French Championships, where in 1948 and 1949 he reached the third round.
Van Meegeren played in six ties for the Netherlands in the Davis Cup from 1948 to 1954.
Van Meegeren won an international tournament in Ostend in 1948 and in the same year the British Hard Court doubles with Eric Sturgess.
After his career he became the owner of a tennis club in the Marlot neighborhood of The Hague
Han van Meegeren
Henricus Antonius "Han" van Meegeren (10 October 1889 – 30 December 1947) was a Dutch painter and portraitist, considered to be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
Despite his life of crime, van Meegeren became a national hero after World War II when it was revealed that he had sold a forged painting to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
As a child, van Meegeren developed an enthusiasm for the paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, and he set out to become an artist himself.
Art critics, however, decried his work as tired and derivative, and van Meegeren felt that they had destroyed his career.
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 colours 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 south of France.
This painting was hailed as a real Vermeer by famous art experts such as Abraham Bredius.
Bredius acclaimed it as the" masterpiece of Johannes Vermeer of Delft" and wrote of the "wonderful moment" of being "confronted with a hitherto unknown painting by a great master".
During World War II, wealthy Dutchmen wanted to prevent a sellout of Dutch art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and they avidly bought van Meegeren's forgeries, thinking them the work of the masters.
Nevertheless, a false "Vermeer" ended up in the possession of Göring, who had traded 137 other paintings for it, and it became one of his most prized possessions.
Following the war, the forgery was discovered in Göring's possession and van Meegeren was arrested on 29 May 1945 as a collaborator, as officials believed that he had sold real Dutch cultural property to the Nazis.
This would have been an act of treason carrying the death penalty, so van Meegeren confessed to the less serious charge of forgery.
He was convicted on falsification and fraud charges on 12 November 1947, after a brief but highly publicised trial, and was sentenced to a modest punishment of one year in prison.
He did not serve out his sentence, however; he died 30 December 1947 in the Valerius Clinic in Amsterdam, after two heart attacks.
It is estimated that van Meegeren duped buyers out of the equivalent of more than US$30 million in 1967's money, including the government of the Netherlands.
Theo van Wijngaarden
Theo van Wijngaarden( 27 February 1874, Rotterdam – 4 November 1952, Voorburg) was a Dutch art forger.
Van Wijngaarden was born in Rotterdam and later lived in The Hague.
Associated often with fellow art forger Han van Meegeren, van Wijngaarden was a lesser artist whose legitimate income came largely from restoration, working with cheaply purchased pictures and moving them to other areas of Europe to sell for a profit.
He worked on several of van Meegeren's well known forgeries, including" Frans Hals" and" Smiling Girl", a painting once thought to be a work of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, akin to his" Girl with a Pearl Earring" and donated by collector Andrew W. Mellon to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1937.
Van Wijngaarden often served as the front man, making the sales deals on van Meegeren's forgeries.
Jacques Van Assche
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He competed in the men's freestyle light heavyweight at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Jacques Van Aalten
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Jacques Van Lancker
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He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Jacques Van Herp
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