One of the artist’s most famous paintings is being exhibited alongside its “twin,” reigniting a century-old debate about who painted the latter.

The serene atmosphere of Kenwood House in Hampstead, home to one of the finest small collections of paintings in London, has this week been rudely interrupted by a gathering storm about the ...

(CNN) — One of Johannes Vermeer’s most famous paintings, “The Guitar Player,” has gone on show alongside its “twin” in a new exhibition. “Double Vision: Vermeer,” which opened at London’s Kenwood ...

Vermeer (1 September-11 January 2026) includes the original image of the guitar-playing woman, which is housed at Kenwood, while its doppelgänger, Lady with a Guitar, is on loan from the John G.

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Two nearly identical artworks, at least one of them by the renowned Dutch master, hang side-by-side for the first time in ...

For the first time in three centuries, Johannes Vermeer’s The Guitar Player has been placed alongside its long-disputed ...

Double Vision brings together two paintings, both known as The Guitar Player. One painting, a treasure from Kenwood’s Iveagh Bequest, is signed by the great Johannes Vermeer (1632-75). The origin of ...