A Quiet Abiding: Jacobus Vrel’s Interior with a Sick Woman by a Fireplace in The Leiden Collection
Norton Museum of Art 1450 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, United StatesJacobus Vrel (active 1654 – 1662) may be the most enigmatic artist of The Dutch Golden Age. For nearly three centuries his work was confused with that of Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632–1675), whose work he prefigures in various ways. Yet almost nothing is known about his beginnings and career. How art historians have been able […]