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If what is known of Vermeer were painted, it Tiffany Bangles be a sketch. Research has revealed little.Born in 1632, he grew up in Delft, a small city in the Netherlands with charming bridges and canals. His father sold art from his inn, and Vermeer became an art dealer, too.A year after his father died, when Vermeer was 20, he also Tiffany 1837 a painter and married Catharina. She might be portrayed among the women. Scholars don't know, since there is no evidence to identify any of the sitters.

An early painting, "The Procuress," may include a portrait of the artist, Wheelock has written. The 1656 painting shows a soldier buying time with a Return To Tiffany . At left, a handsome man holding a beverage looks at the viewer, impishly grinning, wearing a huge black beret over his shoulder-length, frizzy brown hair.Vermeer, Frans Hals and Rembrandt van Rijn are the three big names in the golden age of Dutch art.

While hundreds of Rembrandt paintings, drawings and prints exist, fewer than 40 Vermeers are known.That could be because he had a major patron, Pieter Paloma Picasso Ruijven, who bought possibly 20-plus paintings, relieving him from the pressures of productivity. Or perhaps he just painted slowly, as Wheelock suggested in his 1997 book, "Vermeer: The Complete Works." leaving his wife with heavy debts and 11 children to raise.The painting was then owned by a Belgian baron, who purchased it in 1960 from a top London gallery.