Upcoming Release: Vermeer - A Life Lost and Found
October 13 2025
Picture: Penguin
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Times ran an interesting article over the weekend promoting Andrew Graham-Dixon's new book entitled Vermeer - A Life Lost and Found. In particular, Graham-Dixon's publication focuses a great deal on Vermeer's connections to 'an underground peace movement' of Calvinist Remonstrants and his important patron Maria de Knuijt for whom he created virtually all of his work. The book provides new interpretations of several iconic Vermeer pictures, including the fact that The Girl with the Pearl Earing may be based on the likeness of Maria's daughter Magdalena, who was twelve at the time Vermeer's painting was produced.
The book will be available from 23rd October 2025.
Update - For those wanting more information, it appears (via. several social media accounts) that articles by Piet Bakker and an essay by Judith Noorman have also covered this particular angle before Graham-Dixon's book. Click on the links to read and find out more.
