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This will be my… Read More. Walk and Talk! Instagram Feed. Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter for important updates. Mailing list sign up. First Name. It was also a city with a long and distinguished past. Its strong fortifications, city walls and medieval gates protected the city for more than three centuries and had provided refuge for William the Silent, Prince of Orange during the Dutch revolt against Spanish Habsburg control. Although the court and seat of government moved to The Hague at the end of the sixteenth century, Delft continued to enjoy special status.

Many of Delft's richest citizens, who lived in sumptuous houses along the city's main canal, the Oude Delft, had made their fortunes investing in the East and West India trade. More than Delft households were worth more than 20, guilders. A carpenter or a mason, instead, might earn guilders a year if his health was good. The city, which is articulated within a network of perpendicular canals, draws its name from the Dutch word delven digging.

Although Delft did not have a harbor at the mouth of a river like Bruges, Antwerp or Amsterdam, it was nonetheless connected to the sea by the inland harbor, Delfshaven a few miles away. Johannes Vermeer was the second child and only son of Reynier Jansz. Reynier's parents were the tailor Jan Reyersz. She was active as "uijtdraegster," or second-hand goods dealer, liquidating estates of deceased people. As paintings were frequently part of estates, Neeltge's dealings may have propitiated Reynier's future interest in second-hand paintings.

From to , Beestenmarkt was the site of the noisy livestock market held weekly in Delft. Like most of the people who lived there, both were illiterate.


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Claes was a tavern keeper and professional musician who lived in De Drie Hamers in Beestenmarkt. Claes had also been previously married and had a teenage son. Balthasar Gerrits c. When Spanish troops occupied his hometown, he moved to Amsterdam. In , his son Balthens was arrested for a counterfeiting scam in The Hague, where he and his father had cut dies in order to forge counterfeit coins.

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Both were imprisoned but granted some leeway in the trial because they may have been asked to counterfeit coins in order to create cash for a newly founded Calvinist ally in German territory near the Netherlands. Members of the Balthasar's family testified as witnesses for both father and son, but Balthasar was found guilty and imprisoned in Antwerp during these hearings. His son Balthens was also arrested and put in jail. Two of their accomplices were convicted and beheaded. After Balthasar gave authorities a full confession and the names of the remaining members of the counterfeit gang he was freed.

In a document of Balthasar was described "an artful master of clockmaking and other wonderful inventions. Reynier Jansz. In , Reynier, who was then about twenty years old, went to Amsterdam to train as a "caffawercker" silkworker. Caffa was a kind of fine satin woven with patterns or pictorial motifs widely used for clothes, curtains and furniture-covering. Some scholars have speculated that Vermeer's predilections for this material may have been related to a childhood remembrance, although luxurious satin garments were one of the principal selling points of the elite interior and portrait markets.

At the end of his apprenticeship, in , Reynier married Digna, native of Antwerp, in Amsterdam. The ceremony was officiated by the famous Calvinist preacher, Jacobus Triglandius on July When Digna signed the marriage register to the effect that the couple was free of blood ties she signed with an "X. Shortly after their marriage the couple settled in Delft.

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Vermeer's sister, Gertruy , was born in March of , 12 years earlier than Johannes. In , Reyniers' and Digna's movable goods were appraised and valued at guilders. Their paintings, which included four princely portraits, a few pictures of the Old Testament, a brothel scene bordeeltje and a painting of "an Italian piper," were worth 53 guilders. Vermeer's uncle Anthony had already adopted the surname "Vermeer" by while the artist's father is mentioned as Reynier Jansz Vermeer in Vermeer's family background would be described today as lower middle-class.

Between and , Reynier was described in various documents as an innkeeper. Perhaps encouraged by his association with the art-collecting notary Willem de Langue — , Reynier registered with the Delft Guild of Saint Luke as an art dealer on October 13, The paintings in which Reynier dealt may have sparked his son an interest in painting.

In any case, Reynier probably knew most of Delft's artists and sold some of their works in his inn.

In any case, inn-keeping and paintings went together, since outside their studios and annual fairs, painters had few opportunities to display their works. Vermeer never used the name Jan even though a few 20th-century books use this name in their titles. The name of the locale may have come from the surname "Vos" that Reynier had adopted in the mids, although the other way around is also possible. In the seventeenth century, the Market Square was an important commercial center where fine silks and velvets as well as common linens and wools were traded.

The area around the Voldersgracht was much more distinguished than the Beestenmarkt. From what can be deduced from Renyier's economic rise and legal depositions, he was a hardworking and trustworthy man.

Montias believed that the Flying Fox was located "two houses east of the Old Men's Home," which would correspond to the present-day civic number 23, Voldersgracht. From — changes had been made just in the row of houses at 2— Some buildings were probably joined and then split into still other lots. Consensus has it that the most probable location of the Flying Fox is at 25 or The scholar Kees Kaldenbach pinpoints at Vermeer spent his childhood in a large house located on the Market Square in the very heart of Delft which then counted about 25, inhabitants.

Reynier bought the building with guilders in cash and two mortgages, one for 2, guilders and another for guilders. Such a sizable sum indicates that Reynier was considered able to meet his debts. Reynier and his family moved in to their new living quarters in the spring of The ground floor of the new house was an inn, called Mechelen. The back side of the building dropped straight down into the waters of the Voldersgracht. Along the right-hand side of Mechelen ran a narrow alley, which no longer exits, leading from Market Place to a small bridge and up to the front door of the Guild.

Judging from the etching, Mechelen must have been quite large, large enough to accommodate an inn, Reynier's caffa production and living quarters for his family of four.

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Mechelen was demolished in to make way for fire-prevention equipment, resulting in the present vacant lot next to Market Square number Therefore, the plaque that commemorates Vermeer's birthplace is incorrect. When Reynier died in October , the family gave no money as was the custom to the Camer van Charitate Chamber of Charity. The young painter probably helped his mother and older sister run the inn, which, however, may not have been a very prosperous business. Digna was still paying off the mortgages when she attempted in vain to auction it off in On 12 October, , about 30 tons of gunpowder, which had been stored in barrels in a former Clarissen convent in the Doelenkwartier district, exploded.

The explosion, known as the Delft Thunderclap , killed over a hundred people and maimed thousands.

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Carel Fabritius — , Rembrandt's most gifted pupil, died while he was at his easel painting a portrait. Years later, Egbert van der Poel — painted several pictures of Delft showing the devastation. Nothing is known of Vermeer's childhood, but he must have served his apprenticeship beginning somewhere in the s when he was still an adolescent.