Discover painter, art dealer (person) Johannes Vermeer

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: Meer, Johannes van der (1632-1675)
Vermeer, Jan
Vermeer van Delft, Jan
Vermeer, Johannes Reyniersz.

Monogram: IVM

IVM in ligature

Qualifications: painter, art dealer (person)

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Delft (city) 1632-10/1632-10-31
baptised 31 October 1632

Deceased: Delft (city) 1675-12/1675-12-15
buried 15 December 1675 IN Nieuwe Kerk

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of satin-weaver, inn-keeper and art dealer Reinier Vos, alias Reynier Jansz. van der Meer and Digna Balthasars. Posted banns in Delft on 5 April 1653, married in Schipluiden on 20 April 1653 with Catharina Bolnes (1631-1687); the couple got at least eleven children

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Vermeer, Reinier

This person/entity in other databases

81 hits in RKDimages as artist
352 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
438 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
142 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Delft (stad) 1653 - 1675
His parental home was on Voldersgracht (present day no. 25), and than in 1641 inn 'Mechelen' on Markt, northside. Recorded as master painter in the Guild of St. luke on 29 December 1653, paying 6 guilders as a citizen; dean ('hoofdman') in 1662, 1663, 1670, 1671. Vermeer suffered greatly from the French war and economic devastation of 1672; his last address in Delft was on Oude Langendijk, where his widow died in 1687 (Obreen 1877-1878)

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Aelst, Evert van
Bramer, Leonaert
Montias 1982, p. 209: possibly Bramer or van Aelst
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Bonvin, François
Dalí, Salvador
Deem, George
Fagerlin, Ferdinand
Hunt, Michael John
Janson, Jonathan
Krajenbrink, Reinout
Miller, Richard E.
Volkhart, Max
Whalley, John
Hammershøi, Vilhelm
Roberts, Stone
Man, Cornelis de

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: figure, genre, history (genre), interior view, cityscape, portrait, architecture (genre)

Medium/technique: oil paint

Member of

Sint-Lucasgilde (Delft)
registered in 1653; served as dean in 1662, 1663, 1670 and 1671

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 352 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 236 (as: Johannes Vermeer)
Obreen 1877-1890 , vol. 1 (1877-1878), p. 45, 56 68, 69, 76, 78; vol. 4, p. 289-303 (vol.4: 'Iets over de Delftschen schilder Johannes Vermeer')
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 1 (1907)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 34 (1940), p. 265-275
Witt Checklist 1978
Montias 1982 , p. 4, 5, 60, 80, 83, 93, 134, 141, 148, 152 note, 157-159, 177-182, 184 note, 191 note, 196-197, 200, 205, 208, 209, 215, 237, 241, 250, 258, 268, 284, 316, 324-325, 328-329, 331-332, 346, 372-373
Sutton 1984 , p. 77-78
Van der Willigen/De Kinkelder (typescript 1993/1998)
Briels 1997 , p. 396
Golahny/Mochizuki/Vergara 2006 , p. 209-218 (Y. Kobayashi-Sato, 'Vermeer and his thematic use of perspective')
Stolk 2014A , p. 242
Arnouts 2019 , p. 14-23
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

A. Bredius, 'Iets over Johannes Vermeer, ("de Delftsche Vermeer")', Oud-Holland 3 (1885), p. 217-222
Th. von Frimmel, 'Zu Vermeer van Delft', Blätter für Gemäldekunde 2/10 (1906), p. 183-189
A. Welcker, 'Johannes Vermeer of Jan Casteleyn?', Oud-Holland 61 (1946), p. 149-154
H.E. van Gelder, 'Perspectieven bij Vermeer', Kunsthistorische mededelingen van het Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie 3 (1948), no. 3, p. 34-36
Ch. Seymour, 'Dark chamber and light-filled room: Vermeer and the camera obscura', Art Bulletin 46 (1964), p. 323-331
H. Kühn, 'A study of the pigments used by Jan Vermeer', Report and studies in the history of art, National Gallery of Art (Washington) 2 (1968), p. 153-202
D.A. Fink, 'Vermeer's use of the camera obscura - a comparative study', Art Bulletin 53 (1971), p. 493-505
J.A. Welu, 'Vermeer: his cartographic sources', Art Bulletin 57 (1975), p. 529-547
J.M. Montias, 'New documents on Vermeer and his family', Oud Holland 91 (1977), p. 267-287
A.K. Wheelock, 'Zur Technik zweier Bilder, die Vermeer zugeschrieben sind', Maltechnik 84 (1978), p. 242-257
J.M. Montias, 'Vermeer and his milieu: conclusion of an archival study', Oud Holland 94 (1980), p. 44-62
L. Seth, 'Vermeer och van Veens Amorum Emblemata', Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 49 (1980), p. 17-40
A.K. Wheelock Jr. & K. Kaldenbach, 'Vermeer's View of Delft and his Vision of Reality', Artibus et Historiae 6 (1982), p. 9-35
J.M. Montias et al., 'A Postscript on Vermeer and His Milieu', Mercury (1991), no. 12, p. 42-52
G.J.M. Weber, 'Antoine Dézallier d'Argenville und fünf Künstler namens Jan van der Meer', Oud Holland 107 (1993) p. 298-304
P.L. Donhauser, 'A key to Vermeer?', Artibus et Historiae 27 (1993), p. 85-101
G.J.M. Weber, '"om te bevestige(n), Aen-te-raden, verbreeden ende Vercieren". Rhetorische Exempellehre und die Struktur des "Bildes im Bild" ', Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 55 (1994) (Studien zur niederländischen Kunst. Festschrift für Prof.Dr. Justus Müller Hofstede), p. 287-314
Roger Harmon, 'Musica laetitiae comes' and Vermeer's Music Lesson', Oud Holland 113 (1999), p. 161-166
E. Kolfin, C. Pottasch & R. Hoppe, 'The metamorphosis of Diana: changing perceptions of the young Vermeer's paintings techniques', Art Matters. Netherlands Technical Studies in Art 1 (2002), p. 90-103
G.J.M. Weber, 'Die Empirie des Lichts. Anmerkungen zur Lichtbehandlung bei Johannes Vermeer', Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, 30 (2002), no. 4, p. 38-57
K. Leonard, 'Vermeer's Pregnant Women. On Human Generation and Pictorial Representation', Art History 25, no. 3, June 2002, p. 293-318
C. Pottasch, R. Hoppe, 'The restoration of an early Vermeer: Diana and her companions transformed. A case study about a painting scarred by time', Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung, 17/1 (2003), p. 148-155
M.A. Lindenburg, 'Het huwelijk van Jan Vermeer', Delfia Batavorum 13 (2003), p. 93-97
G. Rubinstein, 'Seeing the light', Sotheby's Preview, June/July 2004, p. 30-33
Y. Kobayashi-Sato, 'Vermeer and his thematic use of perspective', in: A. Golahny e.a., In his milieu. Essays on Netherlandish art in memory of John Michael Montias, Amsterdam 2006, p. 209-218
C. van der Bas, 'The Muilman Collection: the progressive taste of an eighteenth-century banking family', Simiolus 32 (2006), p. 156-181
H. Balk, 'Kennerschap en zelfbedrog. Dirk Hannema en Johannes Vermeer', Kunstschrift 51 (2007), nr. 2, p. 40-45
B. Binstock, 'The apprenticeship of Maria Vermeer', Artibus et Historiae 57 (2008), p. 9-47
D.R. Smith, 'Vermeer and Iconoclasm', Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 74 (2011), p. 193-216
M. Zell, '"Liefde baart kunst": Vermeer's poetics of painting', Simiolus 35 (2011), p. 142-164
A. Waiboer, review of Franitz 2015, The Burlington Magazine 158 (2016), p. 131-132
A. Fémelat, 'Toute la lumière sur Vermeer', Beaux Arts Magazine no. 392 (Febr. 2017), p. 76-85
M. Jover, 'Vermeer & co', Conaissance des Arts no. 757, March 2017, p. 44-53

Th. Greub, Vermeer oder die Fragilität des Sehens. Eine metakoinische Interpretation, dissertation (Kunsthist. Seminar der Universität, Bazel [Prof. Boehm]) (source: Kunstchronik 9/10-2003, p. 531)
Thomas Pavel, Theatrum Fidei. Zu Jan Vermeers Allegorie des Glaubens (werktitel), dissertation in preparation, Freie Universität Berlin 2004 (source: Kunstchronik 2004/8, p. 396)
M.A. Glass, Vermeer in dialogue. From appropriation to response, dissertation, University of Maryland College Park 2003 (source: Kunstchronik 9/10, 2004, p. 501)
Isabel Findeiss, Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von Bild, Text und Film am Beispiel von Jan Vermeers "Das Mädchen mit dem Perlenohrring", dissertation in preparation, Katholische Universität Eichstätt (source: Kunstchronik 2005/8, p. 418)

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Archive location: archief Le Roy

External links: this artist in Ecartico
http://www.johannesvermeer.info
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kalden/
http://www.essentialvermeer.com

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