Mistress and maid by Johannes Vermeer Magnet

Mistress and maid by Johannes Vermeer. About Johannes Vermeer Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialised in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.