Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)? 

Context:

You rifle through your visual memory and there it is: Vermeer, the 17th-Century Dutch artist who painted extraordinary portraits of women engaged in the ordinary -- writing a letter, making lace or putting on a necklace of pearls.

Hypothesis: Vermeer was from the 19th century. 
OPT:
(I) Yes;
(II) It's impossible to say;
(III) No;
(III)