![]() ![]() The blessing took place in the quiet nearby village of Schipluiden. In April 1653, Johannes Reijniersz Vermeer married a Catholic woman, Catharina Bolnes (Bolenes). When Reijnier died in October 1652, Vermeer took over the operation of the family's art business. The acquisition of the inn constituted a considerable financial burden. In 1641, he bought a larger inn on the market square, named after the Flemish town " Mechelen". In 1635, he lived on Voldersgracht 25 or 26. ![]() In 1631, he leased an inn, which he called "The Flying Fox". ![]() Around this time, Reijnier began dealing in paintings. In 1625, Reijnier was involved in a fight with a soldier named Willem van Bylandt who died from his wounds five months later. The couple moved to Delft and had a daughter named Gertruy who was baptized in 1620. As an apprentice in Amsterdam, Reijnier lived on fashionable Sint Antoniesbreestraat, a street with many resident painters at the time. He was the son of Jan Reyersz and Cornelia (Neeltge) Goris. Vermeer's father, named Reijnier Janszoon, was a middle-class worker of silk or caffa (a mixture of silk and cotton or wool). Digna's father, Balthasar Geerts, or Gerrits, (born in Antwerp in or around 1573) led an enterprising life in metalworking, and was arrested for counterfeiting. Johannes Vermeer was baptized within the Reformed Church on 31 October 1632. John Michael Montias added details on the family from the city archives of Delft in his Artists and Artisans in Delft: A Socio-Economic Study of the Seventeenth Century (1982). Until the 19th century, the only sources of information were a few registers, official documents, and comments by other artists for this reason, Thoré-Bürger named him "The Sphinx of Delft". He seems to have been devoted exclusively to his art, living out his life in the city of Delft. Relatively little was known about Vermeer's life until recently. 1730, brush in gray ink, by Abraham Rademaker, coll. Stadsarchief Delft Life Delft in 1649, by cartographer Willem Blaeu The Jesuit Church on the Oude Langendijk in Delft, c. Another pronunciation, / v ɛər ˈ m ɪər/ vair- MEER, is attested from the UK. v ər ˈ m ɛər/ vər- MAIR is also documented. The usual English pronunciation is / v ər ˈ m ɪər/ vər- MEER, with / v ɜːr ˈ m ɪər/ vur- MEER, with a long first vowel, also occurring in the UK. In Dutch, Vermeer is pronounced, and Johannes Vermeer as, with /v/ assimilating to the preceding voiceless /s/ as. Since that time, Vermeer's reputation has grown enormously. 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. He was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken's major source book on 17th-century Dutch painting ( Grand Theatre of Dutch Painters and Women Artists, pub 1718) and was thus omitted from subsequent surveys of Dutch art for nearly two centuries. His modest celebrity gave way to obscurity after his death. "Almost all his paintings", Hans Koningsberger wrote, "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." He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, and frequently used very expensive pigments. He was not wealthy at his death, leaving his wife in debt. ![]() He produced relatively few paintings, primarily earning his living as an art dealer. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age along with Rembrandt. Johannes Vermeer ( / v ər ˈ m ɪər, v ər ˈ m ɛər/ vər- MEER, vər- MAIR, Dutch:, see below also known as Jan Vermeer October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. ![]()
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