" I have always loved Vermeer's paintings”. One of Tracy’s life goals is to view all thirty-five of them (Vermeer’s paintings) in the flesh. She has seen all but one - Young Girl Reading a Letter, which hangs in Dresden. “There is so much mystery in each painting, in the women he depicts, so many stories suggested but not told. I wanted to tell one of them. "

1632 Johannes Vermeer born in Delft, to Reynier Vermeer, a silk weaver, art dealer and owner of a small inn.

1641 Reynier Vermeer purchases the "Mechelen", a large inn on the market squar

1670 again elected headman of the Board of the St. Lukes Guild, a trade association of artists.

The ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ Painting

1676 Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), the microscopist, was named executor for the Vermeer estate.

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