Johannes Vermeer Biography:
Johannes Vermeer, the finest genre painter of the seventeenth century, was born in Delft in 1632 and died in Delft in 1675. He was the son of a silk weaver and tavern owner who sold art, prints and posters as well as beer, a combination of wares not unusual for Holland. So very little is known about Vermeer that it is only presumed that he was at one time an apprentice to Carel Fabritius, Rembrandt's pupil.
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