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Not much is known about Jan Vermeer’s life (1632-75). Less than 40 paintings exist, and it is not believed that many others have been lost (if any). According to Arthur Wheelock, Jr., whose books you should look up, his first known painting, “Christ in the house of Martha and Mary,” is dated circa 1654-55, when he would have been about 22.
