Andrew Graham-Dixon

Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon uses previously undiscovered archives to paint a vivid new picture of the life of artist Johannes Vermeer, most famous for his painting ‘The Girl with the Pearl Earring’. Following new leads, and drawing on a mass of historical evidence, some of it freshly uncovered in the archives of Delft and Rotterdam, Graham-Dixon uncovers the painter’s unknown friendships, and reveals his previously undetected allegiance to a radical movement driven underground by persecution.