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    • Jan Vermeer

    Dutch artist, master of genre painting and portraiture
    Date of Birth: 31.10.1632
    Country: Netherlands

    Content:
    1. Birth and Early Life
    2. Apprenticeship and Influences
    3. Marriage and Family
    4. Career and Artistic Success
    5. Financial Decline and Death
    6. Legacy and Rediscovery

    Birth and Early Life

    Jan Vermeer, one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age, was born in Delft on October 31, 1632.

    He was the second child and only son of Reynier Janszoon, a silk weaver and art dealer, and Digna Baltens, a baker's daughter.

    Apprenticeship and Influences

    Vermeer was admitted to the Guild of Saint Luke on December 29, 1653, indicating he had undergone a six-year apprenticeship with a master painter.

    While the identity of his teacher remains uncertain, scholars have speculated that he may have studied with Gerard ter Borch or Karel Fabritius, a student of Rembrandt. Vermeer's style was also heavily influenced by Pieter de Hooch, a genre painter who resided in