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Amsterdam show celebrates everyday life as depicted by Rembrandt, Vermeer • Apr. 14, 2025, 3:12 AM ET (South China Morning Post)
From orange peels to bottle caps: Thousands of artists create their own 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' • Mar. 31, 2025, 5:24 AM ET (AP)

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Also Known As Jan Vermeer
Baptized October 31, 1632 • Delft • Netherlands
Died December 16, 1675
Notable Works “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window” • “Girl with a Pearl Earring”

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Johannes Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer: View of Houses in Delft
Johannes Vermeer: Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman
Johannes Vermeer: Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer: Woman Holding a Balance
Johannes Vermeer: The Milkmaid
Johannes Vermeer: Girl with the Red Hat
Johannes Vermeer: Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer: Study of a Young Woman
Johannes Vermeer: detail from The Love Letter
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Hooch, Pieter de: Interior with Two Gentlemen and a Woman Beside a Fire
Pieter de Hooch
Dutch painter
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Diego Velázquez
Spanish painter
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Peasant Dance
Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
Flemish artist
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
French painter
Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Winslow Homer
American artist
Self-portrait by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, pastel, 1775; in the Louvre, Paris.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
French painter
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: Grape and Melon Eaters
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Spanish painter
Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov
Russian artist
Pavel Andreyevich Fedotov
Russian painter
Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den: Group Portrait
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Dutch painter and poet
Quentin Massys
Flemish artist
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jacopo Bassano, probably 1555/1560; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 106.1 × 82.6 cm.
Jacopo Bassano
Italian painter
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
George Caleb Bingham
American painter
Gerard Terborch
Dutch painter
“The World Upside-down,” oil painting by Jan Steen, 1663; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Jan Steen
Dutch painter
David Teniers, the Younger
Flemish painter
Lilly Martin Spencer
American painter
Fabritius, Carel: Self-Portrait
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