For 10 points, name this contemporary of Vermeer who painted The Courtyard of a House in Delft.
Derek Mahon's poem about one of this man's works describes a girl who "waits for her man to come home for his tea" and uses the image of "parched veldt and fields of rain-swept gorse." In one this artist's paintings, a wide-eyed child in a white dress stands in the doorway holding a fishing rod. That work shows a dog slinking away as a man hands a letter to a seated woman. A child buries her head in her mother's lap as the mother delouses the girl's hair in this man's A Mother's Duty, whose arrangement typifies this man's interior scenes where the human figures are shifted to one side and a doorway appears in the other half. This artist showed an inscription over a red-and-white (*) arch reading, "This is in St. Jerome's vale, if you wish to find patience and meekness," in a work in which a girl holds her mother's hand beneath a collapsed garden roof, next to a clean brick house. For 10 points, name this contemporary of Vermeer who painted The Courtyard of a House in Delft.
Derek Mahon's poem about one of this man's works describes a girl who "waits for her man to come home for his tea" and uses the image of "parched veldt and fields of rain-swept gorse.
Pieter de Hooch