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Portait of a man, 1930-1940. Man wearing a black wide-brimmed hat, painted in the style of Gerard ter Borch. Henricus Antonius van Meegeren was a Dutch painter and portraitist, considered one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. He 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.