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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Esther Addley

Vermeer or not? New display lets visitors decide who painted almost identical artworks

Oil painting of a woman with ringlets playing the guitar
The Guitar Player by Johannes Vermeer, c.1672. This version of the painting hangs at Kenwood, where both versions can be seen side by side in a new exhibition. Photograph: English Heritage

Two almost identical paintings have been at one time attributed to the great Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer – but what is the relationship between them?

Visitors to a new display at Kenwood in London will be invited to draw their own conclusions on this intriguing question when two versions of a 17th-century painting, titled the Guitar Player, hang alongside each other for the first time in 300 years.

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