Thank you to everyone who participated in our contest and congratulations to Blaire Bomber for winning the drawing!  She correctly answered that the first painting is the fake and the second is the real Vermeer.  For answering correctly and winning the drawing Blaire will be receiving a copy of Jonathan Lopez’s book The Man Who Made Vermeers.

You’ve heard of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and Balloon Boy, but have you ever heard of Han van Meegeren, the man who forged Vermeer paintings and fooled the Nazis?