* 1675 – Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter ( b. 1632 )

View of Delft ( Vermeer ) | View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer, 1660 – 1661

* 1986 – Kenneth Vermeer, Dutch footballer

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

* Writing to Vermeer ( 1997 – 99 ) ( libretto by Peter Greenaway ) Opera for 2 children's voices, 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, female chorus, orchestra ( 7 winds, 2 horns, 2 trumpets + bass trumpet, 2 harps, 2 electric guitars, cimbalom, 2 pianos, on-stage harpsichord, 2 percussion, minimum 22 strings ), CD ( music by Michel van der Aa )

* 1632 – ( baptism ) Johannes Vermeer, Flemish painter ( d. 1675 )

* October 31 – Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter ( d. 1675 )

* December 15 – Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter ( b. 1632 )

Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (; 1632 – December 1675 ) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life.

* Lawrence Gowing – Vermeer

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ) a large four part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice and ensemble.

* Johannes Vermeer ( Dutch, 1632 – 1675 ) Delft School Dutch genre painter, unrecognised in his own lifetime

The Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer ( 1632 – 1675 ) was one among several who produced paintings including examples of virginals.

* Johannes Vermeer ( 1632 – 75 ) Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid c. 1670

* Johannes Vermeer, The Geographer, 1668 – 1669, oil on canvas, 52 x 45. 5 cm

* Critérium International – ( 3 ) – Mount Nelson ( 2006 ), Jan Vermeer ( 2009 ), Roderic O ' Connor ( 2010 )

Johannes Vermeer | Vermeer – The Procuress ( Vermeer ) | The Procuress.

The Vermeer Quartet performed well over two hundred works, including nearly all the " standard " string quartets, many lesser-known compositions, a number of contemporary scores, and various other works with guests.

Vermeer painted few works during his lifetime, about 35-36 paintings, but nearly each of them has become a masterpiece.

Chasing Vermeer took about five years to complete, as Balliett was also a teacher and parent.

In a series of early exercises, he forged works by Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Gerard ter Borch, and Johannes Vermeer.

Vermeer had not been particularly well-known until the beginning of the twentieth century ; his works were both scarce — only about 35 had survived — and extremely valuable.

Previously the residence of count John Maurice of Nassau, it now has a large art collection, including paintings by Dutch painters such as Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter and Frans Hals and works of the German painter Hans Holbein the Younger.

It lacks works by the most important artists such as Vermeer and Frans Hals but taken together this group offers an overview of the different trends within this school.

However, the other European collections include examples of the work of many of the great masters of western painting, including an important version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier Van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others.

The stolen artworks include The Concert by Vermeer ( one of only 34 known works by Vermeer in the world ), three works by Rembrandt including The Storm on the Sea of Galilee ( the artist ’ s only known seascape ) and a postage-stamp-sized Self-Portrait, five drawings by Degas, Chez Tortoni by Manet, a landscape painting formerly attributed to Rembrandt, and two objects, an ancient Chinese Ku and a finial in the shape of an eagle from a Napoleonic flag.

The theft was referenced in The Simpsons episode " American History X-cellent ," in which one of the stolen works, The Concert by Vermeer, is found in the collection of Mr. Burns.

Wynn is collector of fine art, and has bought numerous works by artists such as Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Julian Hatton, Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Johannes Vermeer. Close to the Wizard of Oz by Julian Hatton.

Sir Alfred Beit bought the house in 1952 where he housed his own family's collection, comprising works by many great artists, including Goya, Vermeer, Peter Paul Rubens and Thomas Gainsborough.

Reminiscent of Dutch painting ( particularly Vermeer and Rembrandt ), they are are similar in style to contemporary works by William Orpen, who became Rothenstein's brother-in-law in 1901, marrying Alice's sister Grace.

Housed at his homes in the Netherlands and France, Mannheimer's art ( which included works by Chardin, Fragonard, Watteau, and Rubens, at least one fake Vermeer, gold reliquary busts, tapestries, Meissen porcelain, and Judaica, including a naturalistic circa-1800 Hanukkah lamp known as the " Oak Tree Menorah ") and his collection of 18th-century furniture ( much of it acquired for him by the American decorator Elsie de Wolfe and the Paris decorator Stéphane Boudin ) were seized by the bank.

He was most interested in the works of Johannes Vermeer, Paulus Potter, and Rembrandt, but studied paintings by German and Italian masters, as well.

Also nearby is Russborough House, a fine example of Palladian architecture, which houses the Beit art collection, much of which was donated to the state by Sir Alfred Lane Beit, including works by Goya, Vermeer and Rubens.

Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft ( Mauritshuis, The Hague ) 1660-1661

* Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer paints The Art of Painting, his largest and most complex work.

Clio — detail from The Art of Painting | The Allegory of Painting by Johannes Vermeer

Clio — detail from The Art of Painting | The Allegory of Painting by Johannes Vermeer

Van Swieten owned a Vermeer, the famous " Art of Painting ", which he inherited from his father.

He created " Art Book ", another miniature production, approximately 5 " x 6 " in size and incorporating 36 colour collages cut from the pages of glossy art books, bringing together the work in single images of Magritte and Van Gogh, Matisse and Magritte, Botticelli and Picasso with occasional overlays of Van Gogh on Van Gogh, Van Gogh on Botticelli, or Vermeer on Vermeer.

* The Forger ’ s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century ( 2008 )

* The Great Art Race ( Original title: Vermeer 2 )( 2004 )

The Art of Painting ( Vermeer ) | The Art of Painting by Jan Vermeer, noted for his subtle compositions

The title refers to the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and the image of Vermeer viewed from his back is a reference to Vermeer's paintings The Art of Painting and The Little Street.

The wrist of the Vermeer figure resting limply on a crutch-like maulstick refers visually to the strangely vaguely painted hand of the artist resting on a maulstick in Vermeer's Art of Painting.

His use of light and pictorial structure, using a spray-gun technique developed at the Royal College of Art, has seen Neiland likened to Georges Braque and Johannes Vermeer.

As stated on her homepage, Eißmann was also influenced by: " the Pre-Raphaelites, book-illustrators like Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, Ivan Bilibin and Alan Lee, Art Nouveau, artists like Edward Hopper and Jan Vermeer ".