Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found

Andrew Graham-Dixon, author of 'Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane', has been working on a new and groundbreaking study of another great 17th-century painter, Johannes Vermeer, which will be published this autumn. In this engaging talk he offers a 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, Graham-Dixon reveals intriguing and little-known aspects of Vermeer's life, and proposes an entirely new way of seeing his paintings.

Born in London in 1960, Andrew Graham-Dixon is one of the leading art critics and presenters of arts television in the English-speaking world. He has presented numerous landmark series on art for the BBC, including the acclaimed 'A History of British Art', 'Renaissance' and 'Art of Eternity', as well as numerous individual documentaries on art and artists. He also teamed up with Chef, and friend, Giorgio Locatelli to combine his love of art and food for five series of the popular 'Italy Unpacked'.

Andrew has a long history of public service in the field of the visual arts, having judged the Turner Prize, the BP National Portrait Prize and the Annual British Animation Awards, among others. He has served on the Government Art Collection Committee, the Hayward Advisory Committee and on the board of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.

For more than twenty years Andrew published a weekly column on art, first in the 'Independent' and later in the 'Sunday Telegraph'; and has written a number of acclaimed books on art and artists.

Supported by Elizabeth and Daniel Peltz OBE