Pieter de Hooch - Vermeer's collaborator?

Johannes Vermeer is one of the most iconic names in all of art history. But admittedly, his life and career are still shrouded in a great deal of mystery.

We do no know when he first picked up a paintbrush - nor whether he served any kind of formal apprenticeship in art, We do not know which (if any) of the old masters he may have idolized - or how muc…