VERMEER (1632-1675) Dutch baroque painter * RV 93: II. Largo

Johannes Vermeer or Jan Vermeer (baptized October 31, 1632, died at the age of 43, December 15, 1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in domestic interiors, scenes of everyday life. He spent his entire life in the city of Delft. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial painter during his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and children in debt until his death.
Johannes Vermeer
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Johannes Vermeer

Cropped version of Jan Vermeer van Delft

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Detail of the painting The Procuress (c. 1656), considered to be a self portrait by Vermeer[1]

Born Baptized 31 October 1632

Delft, Dutch Republic

Died buried 15 December 1675 (aged 43)

Delft, Dutch Republic

Nationality Dutch

Education Carel Fabritius?

Known for Painting

Notable work 34 works have been universally

attributed to him[2]

Movement Dutch Golden Age

Baroque

Johannes Vermeer (/vǝr'mıər/;[3] Dutch: [jo:

'hanəs vər'me:r]; October 1632 - December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime but evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.[4]
Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, and frequently used very expensive pigments. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. [5]

Vermeer painted mostly domestic interior scenes. "Almost all his paintings are apparently set in two smallish rooms in his house in Delft; they show the same furniture and decorations in various arrangements and they often portray the same people, mostly women."[6]

He was recognized during his lifetime in Delft and The Hague, but his modest celebrity gave way to obscurity after his death. He was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken's major source book on 17th-century Dutch painting (Grand Theatre of Dutch Painters and Women Artists), and was thus omitted from subsequent surveys of Dutch art for nearly two centuries.[7][8] In the 19th century, Vermeer was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Théophile Thoré-Bürger, who published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him, although only 34 paintings are universally attributed to him today.
Since that time, Vermeer's reputation has grown, and he is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

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