First, Jan Vermeer (1632-75) Dutch painter, produced only 35 paintings of which only two were landscapes & the rest interiors. Half of his paintings show a solitary woman, the best known being the "Girl with a pearl earring." When Michelangelo said "Little things done to perfection, build up into Great things or Art", he might have spoken of Vermeer's Art, yet to come.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) wrote only six major novels, confining herself only to the miniscule section of society, to which she belonged. Her masterpiece was "Pride & Prejudice." She herself spoke of her work in these words "The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour."
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