Johannes Vermeer including Simon Duiker. Other artists who were inspired by Vermeer include Danish painter Wilhelm Hammershoi and American Thomas Wilmer Dewing. In the 20th century, Vermeer's admirers included Salvador Dalí, who painted his own version of "The Lacemaker" (on commission from collector Robert Lehman) and pitted large copies of the original against a rhinoceros in some surrealist experiments. Dali also immortalized the Dutch Master in "The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table", 1934. Han van Meegeren was a 20th-century Dutch painter who worked in the classical tradition. He became a master forger, motivated by a
The Passionate Pianist The Passionate Pianist The Passionate Pianist is an Australian television film, or rather a live one-off television play, which aired in 1957 on ABC. Originally broadcast in Sydney on 2 October 1957, a kinescope recording was made of the broadcast, and shown in Melbourne on 1 November 1957. It was part of ABC's twice monthly presentations of live plays during the late-1950s (one live play each month in Sydney and Melbourne, respectively, with most kinescoped for showing in the other city). At the time, most one-off drama and comedy plays produced for Australian television were adaptations of overseas works, and