Vermeer Painting
"Girl with a Pearl Earring"

The

Painting

William (Bill) Kubesh of Minneapolis, a noted miniature artisan, created the painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" for me. I believe his masterpiece is as good as Vermeer's. I researched easels of that time to create the ones in the scene.

Since Vermeer painted his masterpieces on pieces of linen and strung them on a frame, I asked Bill to make his version look like it had been done that way.

It is believed that Vermeer started with a black ground and added the other colors on top of that. I asked Bill to leave the background black where the earring would have been painted, so that he could be adding it at the moment the viewer "entered his studio."