He bartered many of his works to neighborhood shopkeepers, and his paintings were forgotten for two hundred years after his death, when he was rediscovered by the art historian Theophile Theore.
He bartered many of his works to neighborhood shopkeepers, and his paintings were forgotten for two hundred years after his death, when he was rediscovered by the art historian Theophile Theore. Fully half of his extant works feature a map or piece of art on the far wall illuminated by light streaming in from a window on the left, including Officer and a Laughing Girl and Woman with a Water Jug. FTP, identify this master of camera obscura, a Dutchman who created such scenes of middle class life as Allegory of Painting, The Lacemaker, and View of Delft.
He bartered many of his works to neighborhood shopkeepers, and his paintings were forgotten for two hundred years after his death, when he was rediscovered by the art historian Theophile Theore.
Jan or Johannes {Vermeer}