Vermeer
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname.
A painting by Johannes Vermeer.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
In the degree that the images of concrete irrationality approach phenomenal reality, the corresponding means of expression approach those of the great realist painters - Velasquez and Vermeer of Delft - to paint realistically according to irrational thought, according to the unknown imagination.
This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.
I'd sleep under a Vermeer.
A Vermeer painting plays a key part of the dénouement in Agatha Christie 's After the Funeral (1953).
Coremans refused and van Beuningen sued him, alleging that Coremans’s wrongful branding of The Last Supper II diminished the value of his "Vermeer" and asking for compensation of £500,000 (about $1.3 million or about $10 million today).
Balthasar de Monconys visited him in 1663 to see some of his work, but Vermeer had no paintings to show.