 His family and several hundred of his friends attended his funeral at the Driehuis Westerveld Crematorium chapel.In 1948, his urn was buried in the general cemetery in the village of Diepenveen (municipality of Deventer).After his death, the court ruled that Van Meegeren's estate be auctioned and the proceeds from his property and the sale of his counterfeits be used to refund the buyers of his works and to pay income taxes on the sale of his paintings.