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Jan (Johannes) Vermeer (or Jan Van Der Meer)
1632-1675 Netherlands/Baroque
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Brief Biography-Jan Vermeer (Johannes Van der Meer), son of merchant Reynier Vermeer, was born in Delft. He was married to Catharina Bolenes, with whom he had eleven children. There have been suggestions that Carel Fabritius tutored him, which is uncertain; however, Fabritius influenced him; Vermeer also had three Fabritius paintings on his death. In addition, there is evidence of using a Camera Obscura in some of Vermeer’s images. In 1653, the Guild of Saint Luke admitted him, and between 1662 and 1671, he became a headman of the Guild on four occasions.
Vermeer had a small output; only c. thirty-five works were accredited to him, painted over twenty years. He supported his family through his father’s business after he died and was not known to have sold any of his paintings during his life. He gave most of his work away to clear debts. Vermeer was almost forgotten until the late nineteenth century when a French art critic named Théophile Thoré-Bürger supported his paintings in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. He initially attributed many pictures by Jan Steen and De Hooch to Vermeer. His works are ranked next to that of Rembrandt today.
A family of Vermeer painters from Haarlem are not said to be related to Jan Vermeer of Delft.
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Girl Reading
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-Maidservant
Holdinga Letter

Lady Writing
a Letter

Woman in Blue
Reading a Letter

Lady Writing
a
Letter

The
Love Letter

Girl with
a Flute

Woman Holding
a Balance

A Lady and Two
Gentlemen

Allegory
of the Faith

Woman Seated
at the Virginal

Woman with
a Lute

Woman Standing
at the Virginal

Officer with a
Laughing Girl

The Artist's
Studio

Woman with a
Pearl Necklace

The
Astronomer

The
Concert

The
Geographer

Lace
Maker

Glass of
Wine

The Little
Street

Music
Lesson

Guitar
Player

Woman Sleeping
at a Table

A
Young Woman

Girl with a
Pearl Earring

Girl Interupted
at her Music

The
Milkmaid

View of
Delft

The
Procuress

Girl with
Red Hat

A Lady Seated
at the Virginal

Christ in
the House-

Diana and her
Companions

Saint
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