 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.Han (a diminutive version of Henri or Henricus) van Meegeren was born in 1889 as the third of five children of middle-class Roman Catholic parents in the provincial city of Deventer.