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Jan Vermeer
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Who Was Jan Vermeer?
Jan Vermeer joined the Delft painter’s guild in He served as its dean from to '63, and again from to ' His early works include "Girl Asleep at the Table." As his style matured, he painted "Little Street" and "View of Delft." After , Vermeer painted his "pearl pictures," including "The Concert" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring."
Early Life
Born in Delft, Netherlands, circa October 31, , Vermeer is one of the most highly regarded Dutch artists of all time. His works have been a source of inspiration and fascination for centuries, but much of his life remains a mystery. His father, Reynier, came from a family of craftsmen in the town of Delft, and his mother, Digna, had a Flemish background.
After his baptismal record at a local church, Vermeer seems to disappear for nearly 20 years. He likely had a Calvinist upbringing. His father worked as a tavern keeper and an art merchant, and Vermeer inherited both of these business upon his father's death in The following year, Vermeer married Catherina Bolnes. Bolnes was Catholic, and Vermeer converted to her faith. The couple moved in with her mother, and would eventually have 11 children together.
Major Works
In , Vermeer registere
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Even though few archival records which regard Vermeer directly have survived, historians have deduced a relatively clear picture of both the artist's life and artistic stature in his own time. In , the Dutch art historian P.T.A. SwillenP. T. A. Swillens, Johannes Vermeer: Painter of Delft – (Utrecht: Spectrum, ). provided the first adequate picture of Vermeer's life (Johannes Vermeer Painter of Delft: –). However, an important part of what we now know is owed to John Michael Montias, the late American economist turned Vermeer biographer. For over ten years Montias patiently transcribed, translated, and pieced together over legal depositions, wills, deeds, warrants, inventories, and promissory notes to form an acceptable portrait of one of the greatest painters of the seventeenth century and his extended family. Curiously, Montias came to Vermeer sideways. He discovered that research on Vermeer's life had not been exhaustive. The result of Montias'study is the eminently readable Vermeer and His Milieu: A Web of Social History ().
Click here to read an Essential Vermeer Interview with the late Prof. Montias.
Grandparents
When Vermeer was born in Delft, the city was already more than years old. In those times Delft was a prosperous, albeit conservative, Dutch town