In which city was Johannes Vermeer born?

Johannes Vermeer was born in Delft.

Vermeer was baptized on 31 October 1632 in Delft, a major city in the Dutch Republic’s province of Holland. Historians generally identify Delft as his birthplace, although the surviving records document his baptism rather than a separately recorded birth certificate. He spent most of his life there and became closely associated with the city’s artistic and civic world.

Delft was an important commercial and cultural center during the Dutch Golden Age. It had a respected painters’ community, the Guild of Saint Luke, which Vermeer joined in December 1653. His paintings often portray quiet domestic interiors, but his connection to Delft is also visible in works such as View of Delft, one of his best-known cityscapes.

The answer is sometimes confused with Amsterdam or Utrecht because Vermeer’s style was influenced by wider Dutch art, including Utrecht Caravaggism, and because Amsterdam was a major art market. However, the documented biographical record consistently places Vermeer’s birth and death in Delft. He died there on 15 December 1675.