Vermeer Research
Vermeer is a Dutch artist who specialized in domestic
interior scenes of middle class life. He wasn’t wealthy and didn’t work for
royalty or the rich like most painters at the time, he worked for himself, thus
leaving his wife and children in depts as he passed. Vermeer worked slowly and
used expensive pigments where he probably shouldn’t have. He painted mostly
domestic interior scenes containing a darker background and a focus on the main
subject. For example, mostly famous for ‘The Girl with The Pearl Earring’ which
left people with a lot of questions about the girl as it was so unique and well
made.
Vermeer didn’t really become
famous until after his death, though he was recognised. 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 wasn’t fully recognised for 2 centuries after. 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.
Vermeer has other paintings such as:
The Love Letter
The Love Letter
The
Astronomer 
Each
of Vermeer’s paintings were done in oil paint which also shows how good of an
artist he was as he created such detailed and realistic pieces.
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