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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

Vermeer offers a chase after clues by hiding as he seeks, blurring and defining as he moves our eyes around the canvas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Vermeer eschewed easy narrative deduction, Mr. Graham-Dixon writes, by substituting the map with a blank wall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Calder flipped back and forth in the book, looking at some of the other Vermeer paintings.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

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