Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. He produced relatively few paintings, primarily earning his living as an art dealer. He was not wealthy; at his death, his wife was left in debt.

31 October 1632

Born on the same birth day (31 October): Anne Claude de Caylus • Chiang Kai-shek • Christopher Anstey • David Dellucci • Denis Irwin • Franco Gasparri • Inka Grings • Jack Riewoldt • Jane Pauley • John Candy • Letitia Wright • Louise of Sweden • Luis Fortuño • Martin Verkerk • Mike Gallego • Norodom Sihanouk • Robert Pollard • Samaire Armstrong • Susan Orlean • Vallabhbhai Patel

Born in the same month (October 1632): Antonie van Leeuwenhoek • Christopher Wren • Christopher Wren • Edward Hungerford (spendthrift)