Vermeer: a life lost and found | Andrew Graham-Dixon Lecture
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Friday 31st October 2025 | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
A LIVE Lit & Phil Event | £25
Friday 31st October | 6pm
Vermeer: a life lost and found
A lecture with Andrew Graham-Dixon
Andrew Graham-Dixon, author of the definitive biography of Caravaggio, has been working on a new and groundbreaking study of another great seventeenth-century painter, Johannes Vermeer, which will be published this autumn. In this engaging talk he offers a sneak preview of some of his most important new discoveries and reinterpretations of some of the world’s most beloved paintings, including the Girl with a Pearl Earring, A View of Delft, The Milkmaid and The Artist in His Studio.
Drawing on a wealth of material discovered in the archives of Delft and other Dutch towns, from Gouda to Amsterdam, Andrew reveals intriguing and little-known aspects of Vermeer’s life, and proposes an entirely new way of seeing his paintings.
A LIVE Lit & Phil Event | £25
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Image of Andrew Graham-Dixon provided by promoter | Photography credit Aliona Adrianova
