Vermeer

American

[ver-meer, vuhr-mayr] / vərˈmɪər, vərˈmeɪr /

noun

Jan Jan van der Meer van Delft, 1632–75, Dutch painter.

Vermeer British

/ vərˈmeːr, vɛəˈmɪə /

noun

Jan (jɑn). full name Jan van der Meer van Delft 1632–75, Dutch genre painter, noted esp for his masterly treatment of light

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In 1990, two men disguised as police officers spent 81 minutes crisscrossing Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to cut out and carry off masterpieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"Girl with a Pearl Earring" will go on show in Osaka this week, on a rare trip abroad for the 17th-century Johannes Vermeer masterpiece and potentially its last to Japan.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

X-ray analysis shows that Vermeer originally depicted her standing before a map.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Vermeer emerged from the doctrinal matrices of 17th-century Delft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Sometimes he wished he’d never heard of Fort or Vermeer.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

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