Fine Art3.1

Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.  He was recognized during his lifetime in Delft and The Hague, but his modest celebrity gave way to obscurity after his death. He was rediscovered by Gustay Feiedrich Waagen and Theophile Thore-Burger, who published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him, although only 34 paintings are universally acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.