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Johannes Vermeer
Girl with a Pearl Earring, oil on canvas by Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665; in the Mauritshuis, The Hague.
Johannes Vermeer spent his entire artistic career in Delft, the city where he was born and baptized.12
While little is known about his early training or potential travels to other artistic centers like Amsterdam or Utrecht, he was officially registered as a master painter in the Delft Guild of Saint Luke by December 1653. Throughout his life, he remained deeply connected to the city, eventually moving into the home of his mother-in-law, Maria Thins, in Delft, where he continued to develop his celebrated style of genre painting.32