Vermeer

"In the seventeenth century, industry and commerce thrived in the Dutch city of Delft, as did art and culture. In 1653, the twenty-one-year-old son of an innkeeper, the artist Johannes Vermeer, registered as a master painter with the city's Guild of St. Luke. Vermeer married well, had many children, and enjoyed a respectable local reputation as a painter until his death in 1675. But it was not un...