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Definition of Jan Vermeer

1. Noun. Dutch painter renowned for his use of light (1632-1675).

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Literary usage of Jan Vermeer

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1. The Story of Dutch Paintingby Charles Henry Caffin by Charles Henry Caffin (1909)
"CHAPTER VIII GERARD TERBORCH, Jan Vermeer, AND JAN STEEN TERBORCH is the aristocrat among Dutch painters, ..."

2. The Art of the Berlin Galleries: Giving a History of the Kaiser Friedrich by David Charles Preyer (1912)
"... Jan Vermeer VAN DELFT LADY WITH THE PEARL NECKLACE Plate xxxv Kaiser Friedrich Museum ... Jan Vermeer ..."

3. The American Magazine of Art by American Federation of Arts (1916)
"Jan Vermeer van Delft en Carel Fabritius. ... Jan Vermeer of Delft." Boston, 1913. Frank Jewett Mather, jr.—"Vermeer of Delft." An essay in his volume of ..."

4. Ivory Apes and Peacocks: Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue by James Huneker (1915)
"First let us ask: Who was Jan Vermeer, or Van der Meer? ... This is precisely what we know of Jan Vermeer of Delft, in which city— oddly enough — there is ..."

5. Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs (1904)
"Of the parentage of Jan Vermeer of Delft we know only that his father, ... From whom Jan Vermeer received his instruction in art has been the subject of ..."

6. The Portfolio: Monographs on Artistic Subjects by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1894)
"... eleven years after his marriage—was grandmother of Mary Queen of Scots ; and to attribute the Franz Hals and the Jan Vermeer to—well, I won't say whom ! ..."

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